Robert E. Howard on writing

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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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