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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham


It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley


Every accomplishment large and small begins with the same decision: I’ll Try. – Ted Key


When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall, But when you write, your words echo down the ages. – Bud Gardner


Few things are impossible to diligence and skill ……….. Great works are performed not by strength but perseverance. – Dr. Samuel Johnson


All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. – F. Scott Fitzgerald


Writing is easy: all you do it sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until little drops of blood form on your forehead. – Gene Fowler


A moment’s success pays for the failure of the years. – Robert Browning.


Find a subject you care about and which in your heart you feel others should care about. It is the genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style. – Kurt Vonnegut.


If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, be will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau


The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. – Thornton Wilder


There are depths in mankind that go to the lowest hell, and reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is? – Thomas Carlyle


Opportunity ….. Often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. – Napoleon Hill