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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer. ↗

— Cynthia Ozick

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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant. ↗

— Russell Banks

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Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#elizabeth-gilbert #enlightenment #life #success #wisdom

Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent. ↗

— Willie Aames

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That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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