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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written shoul

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. – Elias Canetti

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)

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Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. – Franklin P. Adams, Half a Loaf, 1927

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Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. – John Lancaster Spalding

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But lets just say, Im Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist. – Liam Neeson

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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco

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When Im working, Im very purposeful and everything else gets out of focus. Something Ive had to work on together with my wife is how to acknowledge each other in the midst of this and keep the relationship going. – Jeff Bridges

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