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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is go

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/

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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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