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|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br />
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br />
|50 = '''Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.'''<br />
|50 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">—[[John Steinbeck]]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|51 = '''Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.'''<br />
|51 = '''Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Steinbeck]]<br/>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite>
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
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|57 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br />
|57 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]<br />
|58 = '''Nous nageons tous dans une mer dont nous n'avons jamais vu le rivage.  Malheur à ceux qui se battent en nageant.'''  (We are all swimming in a sea whose shore we have never seen.  Ill luck to those who fight while swimming.)<br />
|58 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Voltaire]]<br />
|59 = '''Potential counts for nothing until it’s realized.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|60 = '''A little knowledge can go a long way.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|61 = '''A sincere effort is all you can ask.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|62 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman<br />
|63 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite>
|64 ='''The writer tries to move stuff from his brain into the brains of his readers, using words as his only tools. Good writing doesn't just transport ideas—it gives the reader a visceral experience, as if the writer is reaching inside his skull, grabbing fistfuls of neurons, twisting them, petting them, and sometimes crushing them.'''<br />
    <cite style="font:size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Gunnar Olsson<br/>
|65 = "To understand is to be immersed in language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another.  At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word. . . .without names there may well be sweet- and salt-water oceans, but neither gods nor rocks, neither knowledge nor understanding."<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.quora.com/Writing/What-should-everyone-know-about-writing Marcus Geduld]</cite>
|66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur.  Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do.  The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite>
|67 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
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