The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race.

~ William Zinsser

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The final advantage is the same that applies in every other competitive venture. If you would like to write better than everyone else, you have to want to write better than everyone else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen--editors, agents, and publishers--whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards are not as high. Too many writers are browbeaten into settling for less than their best.

~ William Zinsser

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My fate is written by my God. It can never be wrong.

~ Irfa Rahat

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God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

~ Elizabeth George

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Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous.Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest ink sliding across texture paper. My eyes squint against the loss of time within the pages of story. I don't think there's a cure for my compulsion to lose myself within life and times of those characters bound between the covers.

~ Jazz Feylynn

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What in this fucking world are you going to tell me?...One book has been written by You so far... you have read few books and you are spreading what!?

~ Deyth Banger

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No story is complete until it is written.

~ Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

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But on the question of who you're writing for, don't be eager to please.

~ William Zinsser

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Learn to enjoy this tidying process. I don't like to write; I like to have written. But I love to rewrite. I especially like to cut: to press the DELETE key and see an unnecessary word or phrase or sentence vanish into the electricity. I like to replace a humdrum word with one that has more precision or color. I like to strengthen the transition between one sentence and another. I like to rephrase a drab sentence to give it a more pleasing rhythm or a more graceful musical line. With every small refinement I feel that I'm coming nearer to where I would like to arrive, and when I finally get there I know it was the rewriting, not the writing, that wont the game.

~ William Zinsser

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Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

~ Ben Johnson

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Don't criticize me because of what I write, because for all you know, I could be right!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

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Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read.

~ Dean Koontz

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Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.

~ Peggy Toney Horton

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History should be written as philosophy.

~ Voltaire

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