1. "subject"
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Lee Gutkind, You Can't Make This Stuff Up: The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
2. "The greatness of a writer has nothing to do with subject matter itself, only with how much the subject matter touches the author."
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Quote by Boris Pasternak
3. "If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject."
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Quote by Madeleine L'Engle
4. "There is no question that the style is more important than the subject matter."
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Fernando Sorrentino, A Conversation with Fernando Sorrentino
5. "People usually feel comfortable making decisions about subject matter that’s familiar to them."
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Dennis W. Bakke, Joy at Work: A Revolutionary Approach To Fun on the Job
6. "Since the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter, then no subject, however offbeat, need be beyond its reach."
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Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
7. "The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding."
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Alexander Theroux, Darconville’s Cat
8. "It is the kind of learning you are practising that is important, not the subject-matter you are practising on."
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Guy Claxton, What's the Point of School?: Rediscovering the Heart of Education
9. "The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves."
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Neal Stephenson, The Confusion
10. "We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject."
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Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science with a Prelude in Rhymes & an Appendix of Songs