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His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner either. — David Foster Wallace
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. — David Foster Wallace
Beware of clichÃ©s. Not just the ÂclichÃ©s that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichÃ©s of response as well as expression. There are… — Geoff Dyer
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that… — Neil Gaiman
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it… — Flannery O'Connor
As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who… — Katherine Paterson
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and… — Ayn Rand
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. — W. Somerset Maugham
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands. — Henry David Thoreau
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have… — Morris West
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same. — Aristotle
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come… — Gerald Brenan
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. — Andre Gide
All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times — Rosemary Wells
Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the… — Unknown Author
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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