The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the world.
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M.J. Stoddard
The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad exposed to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to...
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Anne Bradstreet
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and...
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Aberjhani
When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.
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Stephen King
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the...
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William Goldman
More Quotes By Juvenal
Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.
Besides what endless brawls by wives are bred, The curtain lecture makes a mournful bed.
Fate would have no divinity if we were wise: it is we who make her a goddess and place her in heaven.
Honesty is admired, and starves.
Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish'd ? that with sing-song, Whine me dead?
