Cervantes

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

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Colette

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

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Connolly, Cyril

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

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Horace

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

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Marquis, Donald R.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

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Selden, John

Syllables govern the world.

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Shaw, George Bernard

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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Shaw, George Bernard

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

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