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"“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle"

"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending." – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration." – Ernest Hemingway

"There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either." – Robert Graves

“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.” — P.G. Wodehouse

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good." – William Faulkner

"“To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard.” — Allen Ginsberg"

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." – Oscar Wilde

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

"When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs." — Margaret Laurence

“Be obscure clearly.” — E. B. White

"I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide."HarperLee

“Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” — Julie Andrews

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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” — Thomas Mann

"The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written." — @joycecaroloates

"“I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.” — Louise Brown"

"Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now." — Annie Dillard