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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I am the sum of my past experience. Some people have got a lot to answer for. ↗

— Peter James West

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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer. ↗

— Ben Hecht

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Every writer I know has trouble writing. ↗

— Joseph Heller

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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped. ↗

— Anita Hill

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When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. ↗

— Paul Henderson

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