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An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and gro

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. – Juvenal, Satires

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There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as do exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are, but through the jungles of self, the world, and of craft. – Jessamyn West, Saturday Review, 1957 September 21st

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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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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it. – Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, 1948

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Words — so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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