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- A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
- Benjamin H. Brewster (1816 - 1888)
- A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
- Anonymous
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
- Inigo DeLeon
- The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
- Leo Rosten (1908 - )
- If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.
- Ralph Novak
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
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