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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be p

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. – Russell Lynes

Other quotes by Russell Lynes

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal. – Russell Lynes

Category:
Self-Discovery
Author
Russell Lynes
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The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. – Russell Lynes

Category:
architecture
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Russell Lynes
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Other Quotes from
Writing
category

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

Category:
Writing

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. – Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

Category:
Writing

Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

Category:
Writing

There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st

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Writing

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Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy. – Alistair Darling

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