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Donald McKay

"Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes."

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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."

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"One great use of words is to hide our thoughts."

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"I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing."
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