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"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."	Fran Lebowitz
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."	Francis Bacon
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."	Frank Lloyd Wright
"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity."	George Orwell
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."	GK Chesterton
"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."	GK Chesterton
"The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity."	GK Chesterton
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else."	Gloria Steinem
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."	Gustave Flaubert
"Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."	Hunter S. Thompson
"After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style."	Isaac Disraeli
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."	J.R.R. Tolkien
"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."	James Michener
"I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation."	James Michener
"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."	James Michener
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."	James Michener
"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."	John Donne
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."	Joseph Pulitzer

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