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"There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction." Theodore Roosevelt 3.5 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 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
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." Marcus Tullius Cicero 3.25 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity." George Orwell 3.2 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it." Oscar Wilde 3 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
"When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do." Anne Sexton 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else." Gloria Steinem 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"Every author should weigh his work and ask, 'Will humanity gain any benefit from it?'" Nachman of Bratslav 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." Ring Lardner 3 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"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 2.6666666666666665 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"It's a phonetic language. Anything can make sense. How do you think Dr. Seuss wrote any of that sh*t?" Matthew Clayfield 1.5625 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life." Saul Bellow 1 avg (0 votes) Rate this Quote


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