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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Author: Samuel Johnson

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
Author: Winston Churchill

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
Author: Mark Twain

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Author: Ronald Reagan

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Author: Mark Twain

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.
Author: George Bernard Shaw

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
Author: Mark Twain

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Author: T. S. Eliot

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Author: Winston Churchill

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
Author: Victor Hugo

I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
Author: Blaise Pascal

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Author: Sir Francis Bacon

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Author: Oscar Wilde

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
Author: John Ruskin

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Author: Thomas Mann

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