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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insi

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

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A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. – Henry David Thoreau

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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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