Read a lot,
write a lot
is the great commandment.

—Stephen King

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear,
since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned.
All I know about grammar is its infinite power.
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence,
as definitely and inflexibly as the position of the camera
alters the meaning of the object photographed.

—Joan Didion

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The difference between the right word
and the almost-right word is really a large matter—
’tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

—Mark Twain

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Learn to trust our own judgment,
learn inner independence,
learn to trust that time will
sort the good from the bad—
including your own bad.

―Doris Lessing

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The practice and habit of writing
not only drain the mind
but supply it too.

—William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White

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Dreams, books,
are each a world;
and books, we know,
Are a substantial world,
both pure and good:
Round these,
with tendrils strong
as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and
our happiness will grow.

—William Wordsworth

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