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I proceed with the proper subject of this discourse; namely, the further changes in scientific belief, which have occurred within my own recollection, even since the time when I first aspired to authorship, now forty- five years ago.

~Asa Gray

Topics: Aspired Authorship Belief Changes Discourse Even First Five Forty Further My Own Namely Now Occurred Own Proceed Proper Recollection Scientific Since Subject Time Which Within Years Years Ago

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There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.

~Charles Caleb Colton

Topics: Anything Authorship Difficulties Find Honest Men Publish Publishing Read Sensible Three Worth Write

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I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

~David Knopfler

Topics: Authorship College Escape Go Gravity Induce Liable Longer Miles Moved Punishment Really Seemed Something South Until Vengeful Where

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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

~Eavan Boland

Topics: Authorship Could Custom Everything Failed Fit Ghost Hand Heavy Hold Irish Language Life Mean Meant Mine My Life Night Poetry Seemed Sometimes Struggled Tried Where Word Write Young I Tried

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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

~George Sand

Topics: Authorship Obsession Trade Violent

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We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

~George Wald

Topics: Authorship Editing Products Rather Than

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