Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

G. C. Lichtenberg
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  2. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Ray Bradbury

  3. The road to hell is paved with adverbs. - Stephen King

  4. Fiction is the truth inside the lie. - Stephen King

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More Quotes By G. C. Lichtenberg
  1. A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it you can't expect an apostle to look out.

  2. Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

  3. Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

  4. Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay than they think.

  5. Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

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