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"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." Mark Twain 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers." T.S. Eliot 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away." Victor Hugo 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable." Francis Bacon 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." Benjamin Disraeli 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist." Isaac Asimov 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." W. Somerset Maugham 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Be obscure clearly." E.B. White 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Writing is both mask and unveiling." E.B. White 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." Stephen King 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor." Ring Lardner 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better." George Burns 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man." Emily Dickinson 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword." Julie Arabi 4.9565 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing." Benjamin Franklin 4.9545 average rating Rate this Quote
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." Omar Khayyám 4.9545 average rating Rate this Quote
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased." Alexander Hamilton 4.9412 average rating Rate this Quote
"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Alva Edison 4.9333 average rating Rate this Quote
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another." Sir James Matthew Barrie 4.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
"Life is moderately good play with a badly written third act." Truman Capote 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
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