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Quote by Samuel Butler
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler

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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. – Jules Renard, Journal, 1895 April 10th

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An author, behind his words, is naked. – Terri Guillemets

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. – Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977

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