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We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are… — Anita Roddick
Feeding a child at school is such a simple thing - but it works miracles. — Drew Barrymore
If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could… — Peter Lynch
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet… — John Y. Campbell
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me. — Anton Chekhov
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be… — Henry Watson Fowler
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls… — Anne Lamott
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just. — Anita Brookner
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so. — Anatole France
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that… — Alan Garner
Sure, it's simple, writing for kids... Just as simple as bringing them up. — Ursula K. Le Guin
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that… — Percy Lubbock
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth. — Amy Tan
It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win. — Johan Cruijff
Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better. — Bill Shankly
Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so… — Jose Raul Capablanca

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