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There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.
– Robert Lane Greene

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  2. Yesterday’s abomination is today’s rule. – Robert Lane Greene
  3. Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity. – Robert Lane Greene
  4. If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has. – Robert Lane Greene
  5. I’d start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd. – Robert Lane Greene
  6. His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well. – Robert Lane Greene
  7. Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately. – Dgen
  8. From so much self-revising, I’ve destroyed myself. From so much self-thinking, I’m now my thoughts and not I – Fernando Pessoa
  9. The only creative force capable of causally revising your experienced reality is your power to change your Self. – Thomas Daniel Nehrer
  10. You’re never as good a writer as you think you are, and you’re never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing. – Don Roff
  11. Our actions as believers should be extensive and comprehensive – Sunday Adelaja
  12. Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. – Roopleen
  13. Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows. – Frederic Myers
  14. Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  15. Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information. – Gail Carriger
  16. With his extensive experience of over two decades in the law field, Chris Salamone is the present CEO of the law firm, Chris M. Salamone & Associates – Chris Salamone
  17. [E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others. – John Rawls
  18. my mother died of an overdose of sleeping pills after extensive surgery so that the cause of death was probably listed as despair. – Sue Grafton
  19. There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books. – James Patterson
  20. The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  21. Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves? – Michal Coret
  22. We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it. – Allen Lane
  23. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
  24. Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape — I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read. – Christian Bauman
  25. You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. – Paul Rand
  26. The art of writing involves making as many cups of tea as you can in the time available for writing. Then adding extra time for writing… – Alan Dapre
  27. Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing… the rest will follow. – Jane Yolen
  28. The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. – Robert Galbraith
  29. The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
  30. Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived. – Joshua Rogers
  31. A direct relationship exists between the caliber of the writing you read and the caliber of the writing you make. – Robert Benson
  32. The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus. – Robert Greene
  33. Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown… – Robert Greene
  34. Half of your mastery of power comes from what you do NOT do, what you do not ALLOW yourself to get dragged into. – Robert Greene
  35. Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions. – Robert Greene
  36. Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion – Robert Greene
  37. The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds. – Robert Greene
  38. Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit. – Robert Greene
  39. It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. – Robert Greene
  40. Any titles, money, or privilege you inherit are actually hindrances. They delude you into believing you are owed respect. – Robert Greene

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