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"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write."	Stephen King
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."	Robert Heinlein
"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
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."	Gustave Flaubert
"I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better."	George Burns
"Publication - is the auction of the Mind of Man."	Emily Dickinson
"I do not like to write - I like to have written."	Gloria Steinem
"Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible."	Leo Tolstoy
"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."	Jules Renard
"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted."	Jules Renard
"No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published."	Russell Lynes
"I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog."	D.H. Lawrence
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