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"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." -Mark Twain
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."
-Virginia Woolf
"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it." -Ernest Hemingway
"When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out." -Alanis Morissette
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are." -W. Somerset Maugham
"Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening." -Jeanette Winterson
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