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quotes[0]='It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.  <i>-Vita Sackville-West</i>'



quotes[1]='Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  <i>-E.L. Doctorow</i>'



quotes[2]='I try to leave out the parts that people skip. <i>-Elmore Leonard</i>'



quotes[3]='Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. <i>-Mark Twain</i>'



quotes[4]='To burn a good book is to extinguish a little light. <i>-Bernard Fillayson</i>'



quotes[5]='There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy. <i>-Mark Twain</i>'



quotes[6]='I hate bloody editors; they kill my babies. <i>-Trevor Dalton</i>'



quotes[7]='A professional writer is an amateur who didn\'t quit. <i>-Richard Bach</i>'



quotes[8]='Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. <i>-Mark Twain</i>' 



quotes[9]='In the wash of life, truth often comes out grey. - Leon Cazador in \'Tragic Roundabout\' <i>-Nik Morton</i>'



quotes[10]='A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. <i>-Gaston Bachelard</i>'  



quotes[11]='Academic aptitude is only a very small part of the creative principle. <i>-Bernard Fillayson</i>'



quotes[12]='every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. <i>-Mel Brooks</i>' 



quotes[13]='There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. <i>-Oscar Wilde</i>'



quotes[14]='Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn\'t wait to get to work in the morning:  I wanted to know what I was going to say.  <i>-Sharon O\'Brien</i>'



quotes[15]='It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn\'t give it up, because by that time I was too famous. <i>-Robert Benchley</i>' 



quotes[16]='No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism. <i>-Oscar Wilde</i>'



quotes[17]='Imagine the pen filled with your blood and let your heart and soul bleed onto the paper in front of you <i>-Martin Penalver</i>' 



quotes[18]='There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here. <i>-Mark Twain</i>' 



quotes[19]='Easy reading is damn hard writing.  <i>-Nathaniel Hawthorne</i>'



quotes[20]='From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. <i>-Groucho Marx</i>' 



quotes[21]='The book was amazing; once I put it down I simply couldn\'t pick it up again. <i>-Oscar Wilde</i>'



quotes[22]='The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. <i>-Oscar Wilde</i>' 



quotes[23]='The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. <i>-Oscar Wilde</i>'



quotes[24]='I love being a writer.  What I can\'t stand is the paperwork.  <i>-Peter De Vries</i>'



quotes[25]='Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. <i>-Joseph Addison</i>'



quotes[26]='Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. <i>-Walter Benjamin</i>'



quotes[27]='I am returning this otherwise good exercise paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. <i>-Ken Scott\'s English teacher</i>'



quotes[28]='In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. <i>-Mortimer J.Adler</i>' 



quotes[29]='I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. <i>-Groucho Marx</i>' 



quotes[30]='Writing is easy:  All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. <i> -Gene Fowler</i>'



quotes[31]='All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. <i>-  Arthur Christopher Benson</i>'



quotes[32]='There are rules to be followed when writing a novel, unfortunately nobody knows what they are <i>- Somerset Maugham</i>'



quotes[33]='Writers climb mountains, sail oceans, drag across deserts and battle the worst of enemies, while all the time reaching for unreachable stars. Writing is anguish and joy; it is a passion akin to creation, for the writer brings from nothing stories and characters that will endure long beyond the creator. <i>- Bill Copeland</i>'



quotes[34]='If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press. <i>-George C Lichtenburg</i>'



quotes[35]='The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that cannot read them <i>-Mark Twain</i>' 



quotes[36]='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. <i>-Mark Twain</i>'



quotes[37]='Mother Nature is unpredictable with a sick sense of humour and every New Englander knows that, when it comes to weather in the uppermost northeast quadrant of the United States, she is a bi-polar menopausal bitch. <i>-Colin Doran</i>'



quotes[38]='No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious: you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart\'s blood. <i>-Maugham, W. Somerset</i>'



quotes[39]='Weigh your words carefully. They should be neither too heavy nor too light, but not wanting. <i>-Bernard Fillayson</i>'



quotes[40]='A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razor strap. A thin book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat. <i>-Mark Twain</i>' 



quotes[41]='I read books, in preference to television. It is without doubt the greatest waste of time ever invented. I seldom watch it, save for when twenty-two men are chasing after an inflated pig\'s bladder. <i>- Ken Scott</i>'



quotes[42]='The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can\'t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honour among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar. <i>-Groucho Marx</i>' 



quotes[43]='In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you\'re a great writer, you must say that you are. <i>-Gore Vidal</i>' 



quotes[44]='The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. <i>-Mark Twain</i>' 



quotes[45]='- Life\'s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting.. Holy Shit !!! What a Ride!!' 





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