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Authors do it by rote.
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Too many authors spoil a book.
Authors rarely welcome even the most constructive advice.
All his faults observed, Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Julius Caesar -- Act iv, Sc. 3...
Whanne that April with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.
-- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 1...
Devil Book n. See daemon book, the term preferred by its authors.
Writers desire to be paid, authors desire recognition. -- James L. Davi
Authors are easy to get on with -- if you're fond of children. -- Michael Joseph, "Observe
hinko /thing'koh/ n. [by analogy with `typo'] A momentary, correctable glitch in mental processing, especially one involving recall of information learned by rote
a bubble in the stream of consciousness. Syn. braino; see also brain fart....
Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
-- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) -- Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865...