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I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for th

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of William Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. – Bill Hoest (1926–1988)

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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 ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order. – Jean Luc Godard

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