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"If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood."
Author:     Peter Handke Category:     Writers and Writing

"The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything."
Author:     William Hazlitt Category:     Writers and Writing

"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it."
Author:     Ernest Hemingway Category:     Writers and Writing

"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
Author:     Ernest Hemingway Category:     Writers and Writing

"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."
Author:     Horace Category:     Writers and Writing

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
Author:     Julia Ward Howe Category:     Writers and Writing

"A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right."
Author:     John K. Hutchens Category:     Writers and Writing

"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."
Author:     Samuel Johnson Category:     Writers and Writing

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."
Author:     Joseph Joubert Category:     Writers and Writing

"Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many."
Author:     (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal Category:     Writers and Writing


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