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Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Don Delillo: Hardship makes the...

Hardship makes the world obscure.

Source: James Axton, in The Names, ch. 12...

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Marquis de Sade: Man's natural character...

Marquis de Sade: Man's natural character...

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom...

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Sholem Asch: It has been...

Sholem Asch: It has been...

It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

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Thomas Wolfe: The whole conviction...

Thomas Wolfe: The whole conviction...

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious...

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Jane Austen: To sit in...

Jane Austen: To sit in...

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

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Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Edna Ferber: Life can't ever...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death --...

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Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

Peter Abrahams: You can't walk...

You can't walk alone, Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each...

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Chinua Achebe: When suffering knocks...

Chinua Achebe: When suffering knocks...

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has...

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Leo Rosten: A writer writes...

Leo Rosten: A writer writes...

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to...

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Ivy Compton-Burnett: Real life seems...

Ivy Compton-Burnett: Real life seems...

Real life seems to have no plot.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference...

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Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

Nadine Gordimer: The creative act...

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read...

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: It is not...

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties,...

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Judith Guest: And if you...

Judith Guest: And if you...

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty,...

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Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Susan Warner: Many a bit...

Many a bit we passed in our ignorance, in the days when we could see no metal but what glittered on the surface . ....

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Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Grace Metalious: Even Tom Sawyer...

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . .

Source: Defending Peyton Place, NY Mirror, 6...

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Grace Metalious: I looked into...

Grace Metalious: I looked into...

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

Source: On her bout with...

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J G Ballard: Science and technology...

J G Ballard: Science and technology...

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and...

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Lawrence Durrell: For us artists...

Lawrence Durrell: For us artists...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in...

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Robert Ludlum: The plot surges...

Robert Ludlum: The plot surges...

The plot surges forward, complex gears mesh and strip and make a hell of a lot of noise -- drowning out the worki of...

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Gore Vidal: Each writer is...

Gore Vidal: Each writer is...

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams...

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