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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,… — Flannery O'Connor
I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again. — Leo Tolstoy
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have… — Morris West
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures… — Charles Baxter
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The… — Robert Frost
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing — Norman Mailer
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the… — Amy Tan
To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and… — John Hersey
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just… — Joyce Carol Oates
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
Photo of boy with white dirt on his faceYou may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over. — Paul H. Dunn
Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies. — Andre Maurois
We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn… — Billy Graham
All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?… — C.S. Lewis
All mathematicians share... a sense of amazement over the infinite depth and the mysterious beauty and usefulness of mathematics. — Martin Gardner
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by… — Seymour Papert
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other.… — Barbara Kingsolver
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields… — Albert Einstein
In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over… — Michael Fullan

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