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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

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Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.

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In order to write about life first you must live it.

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Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

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People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

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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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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you

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It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

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In a way, I was safe writing

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To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

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Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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