Group 1

John Steinbeck, Somerset Maughm, Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mark Twain

Group 2

Willa Cather, James Baldwin, Somerset Maughm, E. B. White, Flannery O'Connor

Group 3

John Cheever, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Graham Greene, Tennesse Williams, E. L. Doctorow

Group 4

Robert Cormier, Groucho Marx, Norman Mailer, Vladamir Nabokov, Elmore Leonard

Group 5

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Steele, Latin Proverb, Eurpides, Japanese Proverb

I've always tried out my material on my dogs first.

-John Steinbeck

When you're writing, you're always trying to find out something which you don't know.

-James Baldwin

If there is no wind, row.

-Latin Proverb

Don't bore the audience!

-Tennessee Williams

I revise a great deal. I know when something is right bells begin ringing and lights flash.

-E. B. White

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph.

-Gabriel Garcia Márquez

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

-Robert Cormier

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