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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - February 12, 2017
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)  
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
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Carol Burnett (1936 - )  
See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06  
I don't know how to have casual conversation. You think you're talking about one thing, and either you are and it's incredibly boring, or you're not because it's subtext and you need a decoder ring.
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Sara B. Cooper, House M.D., Love Hurts, 2004  
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