"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."

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"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits."

Nora Roberts, American Author

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"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

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"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."

Nora Roberts, American Author

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"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book."

Nora Roberts, American Author

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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

John Updike, American Novelist

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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal friends or impersonal peers, while its revilers can only be envious rogues and nonentities."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"Honor sinks where commerce long prevails."

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"No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist."

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"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

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"Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind."

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"I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up."

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"What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind."

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"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."

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"A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself."

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"Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world."

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"Woman absent is woman dead."

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