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Orson Scott Card: Your work is...

Orson Scott Card: Your work is...

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is...

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Italo Calvino: Traveling, you realize...

Italo Calvino: Traveling, you realize...

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their...

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E M Forster: The most successful...

E M Forster: The most successful...

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful...

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Herman Melville: Give me a...

Herman Melville: Give me a...

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius's crater for an ink stand. . . . To produce a mighty book you must choose a...

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Arnold Bennett: In search of...

Arnold Bennett: In search of...

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four...

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Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

Olive Schreiner: [Finishing schools] are...

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human...

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Alex Haley: Either you deal...

Alex Haley: Either you deal...

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with...

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Mark Twain: Always do right;...

Mark Twain: Always do right;...

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Source: In...

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Herman Melville: Give me a...

Herman Melville: Give me a...

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius's crater for an ink stand. . . . To produce a mighty book you must choose a...

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Jack London: You can't wait...

Jack London: You can't wait...

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Source: In The...

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Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

Arnold Bennett: It is easier...

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Source:...

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Stendhal: Only great minds...

Stendhal: Only great minds...

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

Source: Fragments, 28.
-- Stendhal,...

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Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

Henry Fielding: There is perhaps...

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we...

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Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death --...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Dorothy Gilman: She felt again...

Dorothy Gilman: She felt again...

She felt again that small shiver that occurred to her when events hinted at a destiny being played out, of unseen...

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William Faulkner: A writer needs...

William Faulkner: A writer needs...

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which,...

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Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

Djuna Barnes: The priceless galaxy...

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind . . .

Source: In Webster's...

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Being in a...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: Being in a...

Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.

Source: Balloons,...

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