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Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business. Charles Dickens
The purpose of writing inspirational notes is simply to build others up because there are too many people in the demolition business. Norman Vincent Peale
Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans! Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won't let me enter certain areas. Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We've been frew this a dozen times. I don't have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans? Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN's collective mind. I'm sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else. Kim Jong Il: Or else... Trey Parker
I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place. Annie Dillard
Andy Rooney quote: "I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop..."
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing. Andy Rooney
Haruki Murakami quote: "Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like..."
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves. Haruki Murakami
Stephen Ambrose quote: "There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find..."
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader. Stephen Ambrose
To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much legend and history as Nineveh, or Coeur de Lion, or Jack Sheppard. William Makepeace Thackeray
When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios. Margery Allingham
If you feel you belong to things as they are, you won’t hold up anyone in the alley no matter how hungry you may get. And you won’t write anything that anyone will read a second time either. Nelson Algren
Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave. Gerard Way
Ayn Rand quote: "If you write a line of zeroes, its still nothing."
If you write a line of zeroes, its still nothing. Ayn Rand
Susan Sontag quote: "...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it."
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it. Susan Sontag
we must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste. C. S. Lewis
Think of those fingers as abilities. A creative person may write, paint, sculpt, or think up math formulae; he or she might dance or sing or play a musical instrument. Those are the fingers, but creativity is the hand that gives them life. & just as all hands are basically the same - form follows function - all creative people are the same once you get down to the place where the fingers join. Stephen King

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