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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too b

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

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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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