"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."

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"It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't."

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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"You want to avoid at all costs drawing your characters on those that already exist in other works of fiction. You must learn about people from people, not from what you read. Your reading should confirm what you've observed in the world."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"The hard fact is that writing is available to readers because of market factors as much as particular writing talent."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human being writing human literature to a human audience."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."

Anne Lamott, American Author

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"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"A true piece of writing sets you free."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves."

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"Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough."

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"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

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"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."

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"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth."

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"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might."

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"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."

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"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."

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