A few writing pointers from famous authors

Prof. Dunlap, you smart man you, he told me most of this stuff my freshman year, did I want to listen no, what a dumb ass I am.

S. King sucks. Proof's in the first quote; he ripped that off and added his own mediocre twist.

#17 is Ray Bradbury. #24 and #25 were perfectly placed.

#26 I do what I want.

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A great collection of inspirations for the writer!

#26 G.K. Chesterton is probably my favourite author of all time. Check out his books "Heretics", "Orthodoxy" and "The Man Who Was Thursday". I'm glad; not only that GKC was included but that he is last and warmly quoted.

#24

Wow, imagine that. Fitzgerald stole his line from Mark Twain.

#19

but did you have to kill Oy???

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