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“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.”
Raymond Chandler quotes (American Writer, author of detective fiction,1888-1959)

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“They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.”
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“Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.”
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“I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...”
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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)
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“Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.”
Dean Koontz quotes (American author)
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“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
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