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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."

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Charles Bukowski, American Author

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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."

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

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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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"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book."

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"Taste is the feminine of genius."

Genius

"And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell."

Honor

"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

Water

"The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes."

Question

"A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou."

Friendship

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."

Happiness

"If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple."

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"I am all for the short and merry life."

Life

"Strange, is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too."

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"There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see."

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