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The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for… — Norman Cousins
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history… — J. B. Priestley
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart? — Leo Tolstoy
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Unknown Author
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… — Shirley Hazzard
They say the day you die your name is written on a cloud. — Unknown Author
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of… — Chief Seattle
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart… — Washington Irving
Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good… — Charles Warren Stoddard
Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies. — Unknown Author
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about… — Ernest Hemingway
Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion. — Ivan Bunin
No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud
I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that… — Sherwood Anderson
My God, this novel makes me break out in a cold sweat! Do you know how much I've written in five months, since the end… — Gustave Flaubert
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances. — John Steinbeck
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware… — Diane Johnson
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,… — Ernest Hemingway
There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the… — Mark Twain
I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than… — Mark Twain

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