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Elwyn Brooks White

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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Be obscure clearly.

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

O'Shea Jackson Jr

The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

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Sometimes I'll hike in the afternoon if I have meetings with New York in the morning.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story.

Nora K. Jemisin

In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

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