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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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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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Be obscure clearly. – E.B. White

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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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