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Temple Emmet Williams

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in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
November 10, 1942

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Temple is a journalist nominated twice for a Pulitzer, an author, a publisher, and a former editor of The Reader’s Digest. His award-winning books include Warrior Patient, Wrinkled Heartbeats, Poison Heartbeats, and Warrior Patient Heartbeats.

He writes both non-fiction and fiction with humor and the quick, sharp punch of journalistic truth.
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Temple Emmet Williams I always stop with a surefire paragraph unwritten. Hemingway taught us this. And a lot of other writers. Don't pump yourself dry. Leave a little water…moreI always stop with a surefire paragraph unwritten. Hemingway taught us this. And a lot of other writers. Don't pump yourself dry. Leave a little water in the tubes. That way you can squirt it out the next day and continue. Never stop priming your pump until you reach the magic words of "THE END."(less)
Temple Emmet Williams Read. Read everything. Good stuff will give you something to shoot at. Bad stuff will teach you what to avoid. Respect writing and writers, even if yo…moreRead. Read everything. Good stuff will give you something to shoot at. Bad stuff will teach you what to avoid. Respect writing and writers, even if you do not like them. And write. Write a lot. Make every word in every sentence count. Edit like crazy. Learn your trade. My motto is, and always will be: "It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing."(less)
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The Secret Executive Orders, written by Richard A. Stevens, is an extraordinary science-fiction novel. From conception to presentation it appears flawless, gripping, enlightening. Perfectly paced from paragraph to chapter, the book kept dragging me away from far more pressing matters. Let them wait. This is five-star writing. The Secret Executive Orders is a blockbuster of suspense, su

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“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
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“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you. ”
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“If there were nothing else, reading would--obviously--be worth living for.”
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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
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