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"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." Charles Caleb Colton 3.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls." John Donne 4.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use." Mark Twain 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way." Ernest Hemingway 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel." Bill Clinton 3.8095238095238093 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." Samuel Johnson 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books." Theodor Seuss Geisel 3.6 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." Robert Frost 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart." Martin Luther King Jr. 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 4.5625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." Francis Bacon 3.857142857142857 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." T.S. Eliot 4.666666666666667 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special." Fran Lebowitz 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." Gustave Flaubert 4.875 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." Tom Clancy 4.647058823529412 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader." Robert Frost 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 3.3333333333333335 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"The writer’s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand." Ernest Hemingway 4 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention." Ernest Hemingway 5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press." Mark Twain 4.833333333333333 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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