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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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What an author doesn't know could fill a book. ↗

— Holly Black

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Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom.
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— Jarod Kintz

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Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. ↗

— Billy Collins

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The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest. ↗

— Patrick Jones

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Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way) ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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