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The greatest
part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to
write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
I know not,
Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make
your readers suffer so much.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
In all pointed
sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to
conciseness.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author
Never write
anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is
easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
-- Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
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No pen, no
ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
-- James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author
Writing is the
incurable itch that possesses many.
-- Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Juvenal (c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet
I'd rather be
a lightning rod than a seismograph.
-- Ken Kesey
The moving
finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy
piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
-- Omar Khayyam
1048-1131, Persian
Astronomer, Poet
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