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"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."	Napoleon Bonaparte
"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
"Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism."	Hunter S. Thompson
"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word."	Andrew Jackson
"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"	Dave Barry
"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.
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."	Ernest Hemingway
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."	Saul Bellow
"I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'"	Saul Bellow
"The writer�s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand."	Ernest Hemingway
"Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use."	Mark Twain
"I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter."	James Michener
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."	Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."	Francis Bacon
"Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel."	Bill Clinton
"I don't care what is written about me, so long as it isn't true."	Dorothy Parker
"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
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."	Fran Lebowitz
"No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books."	Theodor Seuss Geisel
"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."	Robert Frost

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