"Writing a book is like washing an elephant: there's no good place to begin or end, and it's hard to keep track of what you've already covered"
"We are the hero of our own story"
Mary McCarthy
"When we read, we start at the begining and continue until we reach the end;when we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out"
Vickie Karp
"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry from it"
James Bryce
"The unread story is not a story;it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story"
Ursula K. Le Guin
"An origonal writer is not one who imitates nobody, but whom nobody can imitate"
"When the pen and paper die, so die great thoughts"
"If the pen is mightier than the sword be careful, words can kill"
"The pen is mightier than the sword, until it runs out of ink"
"It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise"
Nancy Thayer
"That book in many's eyes doth share the glory
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story"
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet
"To a beginner, the advice I would give would be to think straight and write simply. To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later"
Brander Matthews
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