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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
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Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds…
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There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond…
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You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
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I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science…
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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far…
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
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You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting…
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Do not start a story unless you have an ending in mind. You can change the story's ending if you wish, but…
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God is the nest we build together.
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Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer…
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My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat…
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books…
— Russell Banks
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What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.
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If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.
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Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says…
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you…
— Clifton Fadiman
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I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be…
— Helen Dunmore
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By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected…
— Roald Dahl
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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood…
— Anne McCaffrey
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Experience is the only real teacher and if you keep a diary you get three bites at educating yourself - when it…
— Tony Benn
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I'm no prophet, but I'm guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don't think anything can really beat the pure…
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