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“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
—Anton Chekhov
“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
—Mark Twain
“I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on until I am.”
—Jane Austen
“Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you have omitted every word that he can spare.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”
—Louisa May Alcott
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
—Ernest Hemingway
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