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Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

Madeleine L'Engle: A book comes...

A book comes and says, Write me. My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough,...

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Stendhal: The man of...

Stendhal: The man of...

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high...

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Frank Norris: No art that...

Frank Norris: No art that...

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single...

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George MacDonald: The best preparation...

George MacDonald: The best preparation...

The best preparation for the future, is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

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George MacDonald: Certainly work is...

George MacDonald: Certainly work is...

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which...

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Laurence Sterne: I take a...

Laurence Sterne: I take a...

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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Edna Ferber: Writers should be...

Edna Ferber: Writers should be...

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Source: From...

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Peter Abrahams: The words dripped...

Peter Abrahams: The words dripped...

The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a...

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Chinua Achebe: People create stories...

Chinua Achebe: People create stories...

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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James Allen: In all human...

James Allen: In all human...

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the...

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Leo Rosten: The writer wants...

Leo Rosten: The writer wants...

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps,...

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Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

Margaret Mitchell: What most people...

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a...

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Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

Lisa Alther: That's the risk...

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other...

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Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

Nadine Gordimer: The gap between...

The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only,...

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Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Kathleen Norris: Over and over...

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.

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Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

Kathleen Norris: In spite of...

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Tillie Olsen: Time granted does...

Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used.

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Tillie Olsen: There are worse...

Tillie Olsen: There are worse...

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

Source: In Words...

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Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Anna Sewell: Master said, God...

Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals...

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Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Faith Baldwin: Men's private self-worlds...

Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains...

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