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George MacDonald: Anything large enough...

George MacDonald: Anything large enough...

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

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William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

William Makepeace Thackeray: The most engaging...

The most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things...

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Chinua Achebe: Stories serve the...

Chinua Achebe: Stories serve the...

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made...

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Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

Margaret Mitchell: My pet, the...

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own...

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Tillie Olsen: I could not...

Tillie Olsen: I could not...

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special...

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Tillie Olsen: And when is...

Tillie Olsen: And when is...

And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

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Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

Alexandra Ripley: I really don't...

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because...

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Amy Tan: How can you...

Amy Tan: How can you...

How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes...

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Malcolm Bradbury: My experience of...

Malcolm Bradbury: My experience of...

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do...

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Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

Faith Baldwin: You cannot contribute...

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach,...

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Vance Palmer: Beyond the horizon...

Vance Palmer: Beyond the horizon...

Beyond the horizon . . . a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing that gives this continent meaning and...

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Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Tama Janowitz: Long after the...

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets...

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Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Barbara Cartland: Of course they...

Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.

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John Steinbeck: Give a critic...

John Steinbeck: Give a critic...

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Source: Writers at Work, On Critics,...

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Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this...

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Barbara Kingsolver: Sometimes the strength...

Barbara Kingsolver: Sometimes the strength...

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

Source: In The...

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Tom Clancy: I've made up...

Tom Clancy: I've made up...

I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Source: On...

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Brian Moore: Research is usually...

Brian Moore: Research is usually...

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Source: In...

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Ronald Firbank: The world is...

Ronald Firbank: The world is...

The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Source:...

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John Fowles: Men love war...

John Fowles: Men love war...

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at...

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