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I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

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I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan. ↗

— Bill Ford

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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. ↗

— Gene Fowler

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Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

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Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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