Tom Clancy on writing

What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.

There’s nothing that’s ever happened in the world that didn’t start in one human mind.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau1712–1778

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Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C. S. Lewis1898–1963

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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