All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. Bobby Knight

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• media

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. Russel Lynes

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. Oscar Wilde

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• reading
• books

Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn

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• television

The short words are best, and the short, old words are the best of all. Sir Winston Churchill

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• words

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. William Strunk Jr.

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• words

To overcome writer's block, get something - anything - down on paper. Don't wait for perfection to issue forth. Since the key to good writing is rewriting, give yourself something to edit. James Freund

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Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words. Mark Twain

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I don't like to write, but I love to have written. Michael Kanin

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly

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Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin

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• writing

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. Stephen King

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• words
• language

The bane of a college professor's existence is the student who has been taught in a writing course that there is such a thing as good writing, independent of having something to say. Students turn in well-organized grammatically correct prose, with the occasional stylistic flourish in lieu of any logical argument, and don't understand why they've earned grades of zero. In the other direction, if your writing is murky, it's usually because your thinking is murky, too. The cure for that is not a series of writing exercises; it's to master your subject matter. Steven Landsburg

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Remove all empty words from writings, resume, conversation, except when they aim at courtesy. Nicholas Taleb

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• manners

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity. Rudyard Kipling

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