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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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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury

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