"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy on Parents and Parenting
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on Friends and Friendship
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"The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."

Poe, Edgar Allan on Grammar
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"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it."

Rosten, Leo on Writers and Writing
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Bach, Richard on Writers and Writing
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