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• A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
  This is too much of a temptation to the editor. -- Ring Lardne...
• How can you write if you can't cry? -- Ring Lardne
• If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. -- Irvin S. Cobb
• You can't dream too much; you can't do enough to make your dreams come true.
• How many dead babies -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  As many as it takes to make a pile big enough to climb on to reach the bulb....
• They don't even send him rejection slips anymore. All his stories come back marked "Opened by Mistake.
  -- George Price...
• hat there are too many "Thou Shalt Not"s and not enough "Thou Shalt"s. -- Solomon Sho
• A self-addressed envelope would be addressed "envelope.
• Shut up he explained. -- Ring Lardne