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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again, says Oscar Wilde. And Richard Curtis says that most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks. Add to that the dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he's given the freedom to starve anywhere, says S.J. Perelman. To sum it up, there is probably no hell for authors in the next world -- they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this, says C. N. Bovee.

So, ask(s) google, why write?

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you've got something to say, says F. Scott Fitzgerald. Also, there are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second, that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings, says Quentin Crisp.

So, ask(s) google, how to write?

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience, says Mark Twain. In other words, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing, says Benjamin Franklin.

Ok. Cut. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to write a few paragraphs when you can't use your own words? I had no friggin idea plagiarism would be so difficult. In fact, this is the best punishment I can think of for anyone caught stealing someone else's writing. Make him write a short story without using his own words...There is a plus side, though. You can't call this an amateur writer's work. Take that!