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"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."	Edward Albee
"Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword."	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular."	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man."	Emily Dickinson
"It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams."	Eric Anderson
"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences."	Eugene Kennedy
"Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink."	F. H. Bradley
"Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind."	Florence Nightingale
"Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications."	Fran Lebowitz
"Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try."	Fran Lebowitz
"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable."	Francis Bacon
"If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us."	Franz Kafka
"Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else--and usually it's reading his own handwriting."	G. Norman Collie
"God writes a lot of comedy the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."	Garrison Keillor
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."	Gene Fowler
"People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver."	George
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John Gargin	Joseph Conrad	Josh Billings
Jules Renard	Julie Arabi	J. F. Boyse
Leo Tolstoy	Lewis Mumford	Lillian Hellman
Lloyd Garrison	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
Mark Twain	Mark S. Hertzog	Martin Gore
Martin Luther	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Maxim Gorky
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Nathaniel Hawthorne	Omar Khayyám	Peter Brodie
Peter Cochrane	Peter Kropotkin	Phillip K. Dick
Phillips Brooks	Rachel Louise Carson	Ralph Waldo Emerson
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