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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Sir, no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
~ Samuel Johnson
Instead of marvelling with Johnson, how anything but profit should incite men to literary labour, I am rather surprised that mere emolument should induce them to labour so well.
~ Thomas Green
Almost anyone can be an author; the business ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
~ Samuel JohnsonShare This
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes, but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and, having found out what is true, to project it in such a way that it becomes a part of the ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
“There is nothing so important as the book can be.”
– Maxwell Perkins
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