There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Writing honestly demands emotional exposure, likened to bleeding at the typewriter.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!
— Henry David Thoreau
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make anew things familiar and familiar things new.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I quote others only the better to express myself.
— Michel de Montaigne
A clergyman, after having preached, acknowledged to Judge Niles that some how or other, he failed to get into his subjec…
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The two most engaging powers of an author, are, to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.
— Dr. Johnson
