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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it. — Moliere Copy Share Image
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Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn! — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
The books [and games] that give us the most pleasure combine uncertainty and satisfaction, tension and release. — Peter Turchi Copy Share Image
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With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids'… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
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Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don’t validate. Indulge what you don’t… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is… — Marcus Borg Copy Share Image
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
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