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Writing Quotes by Robert Benchley
- The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
- It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was…
- The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
- Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of…
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