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"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."
—Lily Tomlin
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"Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
—Oliver Herford
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"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. "
—Winston Churchill
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"I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way."
—Mark Twain
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"I was reading a book...'the history of glue'—I couldn't put it down."
—Tim Vine
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"A book collector is interested in the first edition, but an author is more interested in the tenth."
—Anonymous
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There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!
—He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.
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