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Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. ↗

— Robert Cecil

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Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

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