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Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustment

Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs. – Jerome Stern, Making Shapely Fiction, 1991

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A metaphor is like a simile. – Author Unknown

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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. – Samuel Johnson, “Recalling the Advice of a College Tutor,” Boswell, Life of John

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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. – E.L. Doctorow

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

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To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming. – English Proverb

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Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. – Ralph Charell

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Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family. – Bo Bennett

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if youre nice to the second housemaid. – Henry James

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