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- People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
- Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.
- Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
- Vigorous writing is concise.
- William Strunk Jr., "The Elements of Style", 1919
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