An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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A truly original writer cannot be imitated, even though he imitates no one himself.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
— Ernest Hemingway
When someone objected that there were no completely praiseworthy characters in her book South Riding, Winifred Holtby ex…
— People
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
— Johann W. von Goethe
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make anew things familiar and familiar things new.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The two most engaging powers of an author, are, to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.
— Dr. Johnson
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.
— Buffon
