"The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled."

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To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot, to look up word origins, to analyze closely the work of writers you admire, to read not only contemporaries but writers of the past, to learn at least one foreign language, to live an interesting life outside of writing.

— Lydia Davis