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	"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." - -- John Ruskin

Subject: Writing

Top 5 quotes from Writing

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
"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."
"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."
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."

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