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Style and
Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are
hogwash.
-- Vladimir Nabokov
1899-1977, Russian-born
American Novelist, Poet
I'm the kind
of writer that people think other people are reading.
-- V. S. Naipaul
The only way
out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death
except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in
writing this being unable, which becomes for the present --
henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned.
-- Howard Nemerov
1920-1991, American Poet
To be a good
diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
-- Harold Nicolson
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