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When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it. — Isaac Asimov
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — Jorge Luis Borges
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character.… — Elizabeth Bowen
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss… — Lewis Carroll
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another. — Sean O'Casey
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his… — Charles Peguy
Readers take in dialogue one thought at a time. A frequent mistake of beginners is to combine thoughts, which may be suitable for other forms… — Sol Stein
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another. — Irving Thalberg
If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Unknown Author
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too,… — Eudora Welty
Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a craft. Bach and Picasso didn't… — William Zinsser
The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius,… — Aristotle
The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the… — Ellen Gilchrist
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his… — Ernest Hemingway
When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you… — May Sarton
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence… — Toni Morrison
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to… — Donald Murray
If you cannot love yourself, you have no chance to love another person. — Matthew Ford
It will be another million years, at least, before we understand the primes. — Paul Erdos
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a… — Hermann Hankel

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