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If you're looking for messages, try Western Union. — Ernest Hemingway
No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,… — W. Somerset Maugham
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.… — Ernest Hemingway
When you describe the miserable and unfortunate, and want to make the reader feel pity, try to be somewhat colder - that seems to give… — Anton Chekhov
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great self-assurance that they… — Donald E. Westlake
I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're… — William Stafford
The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never… — Janet Frame
You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively.… — Anne Lamott
In a narrow market, when prices are not getting anywhere to speak of but move within a narrow range, there is no sense in trying… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
I did precisely the wrong thing. The cotton showed me a loss and I kept it. The wheat showed me a profit and I sold… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
One of the most helpful things that anybody can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore
When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids. — Kanye West
You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb is clever and… — Jason Calacanis
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them… — Joan Baez
I try and intellectualize a lot, which she does as well obviously. She's very determined, I am as well. I like to think that I… — Emma Watson
Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say. — Lorde
You don't want to see that happen on the pitch, it's only right to try and break it up. — Gareth Barry
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made. — Orison Swett Marden
Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going… — Ulysses S. Grant
Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be… — Jaclyn Smith
I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I… — Robert Pattinson
They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided to that I… — Robert Pattinson
I look upon the People and the Nation as handed on to me as an responsibility conferred upon me by God, and I believe, as… — Wilhelm II

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