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• Many a writer seems to thing he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.
  -- George D. Prentice...
• What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
• When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik.
  And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik....
• Never jump on a man unless he is down, and when you do, make sure that you confuse him by supplying him with so many facts that he can not possibly understand what you are saying.
• A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterson (1874-1936)...
• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. -- Edward Abbey