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Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Easy reading is damn hard writing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Easy reading is damn hard writing. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. – Terri Guillemets

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Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. – From the movie Finding Forrester

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The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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