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John Steinbeck: The discipline of...

John Steinbeck: The discipline of...

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

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John Steinbeck: Writers are a...

John Steinbeck: Writers are a...

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Source: In...

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John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

John Fowles: Duty largely consists...

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.

Source: The...

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Marquis de Sade: The ultimate triumph...

Marquis de Sade: The ultimate triumph...

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to...

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Marquis de Sade: The primary and...

Marquis de Sade: The primary and...

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is...

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Graham Henry Greene: Despair is the...

Graham Henry Greene: Despair is the...

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself on an impossible aim.

Source: The...

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George Eliot: Tis God gives...

George Eliot: Tis God gives...

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without...

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John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

John Barth: Like an ox-cart...

Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going...

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Augusto Roa Bastos: Anyone who attempts...

Augusto Roa Bastos: Anyone who attempts...

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of...

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Herman Wouk: Illusion is an...

Herman Wouk: Illusion is an...

Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.

Source: War and...

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Johanna Spyri: Then at last...

Johanna Spyri: Then at last...

Then at last the grandmother spoke, Heidi, read me one of the hymns! I can feel I can do nothing for the remainder of...

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Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Judith Rossner: Identity is a...

Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I am here, a mind...

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Don Delillo: Men with secrets...

Don Delillo: Men with secrets...

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need...

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Harry Crews: I believe some...

Harry Crews: I believe some...

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Source: National...

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Ronald Firbank: To be sympathetic...

Ronald Firbank: To be sympathetic...

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

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Marquis de Sade: All universal moral...

Marquis de Sade: All universal moral...

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Source: The 120 Days of...

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Clive Barker: Be regular and...

Clive Barker: Be regular and...

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

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Clive Barker: Nothing ever begins....

Clive Barker: Nothing ever begins....

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story...

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Margaret Truman: He loved politicians...

Margaret Truman: He loved politicians...

He loved politicians -- even Republicans.

Source: To joint session of Congress on...

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E M Forster: The final test...

E M Forster: The final test...

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which...

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