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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

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Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

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The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

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We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

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Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing.

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In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

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With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

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For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

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But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

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You can only write, 'Somebody wants something, something else is in their way of getting it.'

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That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

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The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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