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“Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”-Allen Ginsberg

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“Writing is thinking on paper.”-William Zinsser

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“Literature is painting, architecture, and music.”-Yevgeny Zamyatin

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“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”-Richard Hughes

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“The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn’t thought about. At that moment he’s alive and you leave it to him.”-Graham Greene

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“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.”-T.S. Eliot

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