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You must often
make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being
read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of
the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
-- Horace
BC 65-8, Italian Poet
The strokes of
the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs
swiftness.
-- Julia Ward Howe
1819-1910, American Feminist,
Reformer, Writer
A writer and
nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English
language, trying to get human feelings right.
-- John K. Hutchens
I am always at
a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
-- Washington Irving
1783-1859, American Author
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He is outside
of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic
solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that
on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
-- Henry James
1843-1916, American Author
I hold any
writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with
his theme.
-- Henry James
1843-1916, American Author
Footnotes --
little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
-- William James
1842-1910, American
Psychologist, Professor, Author
Composition
is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and
steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by
necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is
every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
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