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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
~ Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.”
~C. J. Cherryh

“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
~Gustave Flaubert

“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.”
~ William H. Gass, A Temple of Texts

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.”
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“I write to discover what I know.”
~Flannery O’Connor