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When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how…
— John Green
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
— Paracelsus
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I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
— Mark Twain
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e., the verbal information…
— David Foster Wallace
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When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every…
— Michael Chabon
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After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft…
— Kent Haruf
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What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening,…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I refuse to write the same story twice. I keep experimenting. I keep learning how to work. I've been at it pretty much 50 years,…
— Harlan Ellison
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one…
— Ernest Hemingway
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A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always…
— Ernest Hemingway
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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
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In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
— Aristotle
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I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to…
— James A. Michener
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The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I…
— Linus Pauling
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Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.
— Fran Lebowitz
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Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description…
— Hyman Bass
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We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.
— Tom Peters
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The words Socialism and Communism have the same meaning. They indicate a condition of society in which the wealth of the community: the land and…
— Sylvia Pankhurst
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I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.
— Norman Wisdom
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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
— Elbert Hubbard
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