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• Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before… — Arthur Quiller-Couch
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• If a publisher declines your manuscript, remember it is merely the decision of one fallible human being, and try another. — Unknown Author
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• To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the… — Albert Einstein
• Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it… — Mark Twain
• Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?"… — Fran Lebowitz
• Write a lot. And finish what you write. Don't join writer's clubs and go sit around having coffee reading pieces of your… — Jerry Pournelle
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