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Good writing is difficult no matter what the reader's age-and children deserve the best.

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Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

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In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

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If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

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I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

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People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.

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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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Sometimes, even when I'm writing the lyrics, I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but then months will pass and I'll listen to it and I'll understand it completely. I think I trust myself in that most of what comes out of me will be honest. Even if it seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense, I realize that it does. It's hard to follow, and maybe there's a lot of subtext to it that nobody knows, so it makes it impossible to follow.

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No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.

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Having books published is very destructive to writing.

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You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.

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The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

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There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

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This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

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

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