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Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

Tama Janowitz: As a writer,...

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like...

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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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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: What happens is...

Augusto Roa Bastos: What happens is...

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind...

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Michael Crichton: If true computer...

Michael Crichton: If true computer...

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

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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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Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

Naomi Mitchison: It was as...

It was as though there was a film going on inside my head, and I was watching it as it went by. I was completely...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: It has never...

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler...

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Jean Ingelow: It is not...

Jean Ingelow: It is not...

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the...

Wilfrid Sheed: One reason the...

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from...

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Ronald Firbank: `O, help me...

Ronald Firbank: `O, help me...

`O, help me heaven,' she prayed, `to be decorative and to do right.'

Source: Flower...

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John Fowles: We all write...

John Fowles: We all write...

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

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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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Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

Marguerite Yourcenar: A young musician...

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes...

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Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

Marguerite Yourcenar: If I make...

If I make it, I will carry a pencil instead of the ritual sword.

Source: On her...

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Sir Walter Besant: Youth is a...

Sir Walter Besant: Youth is a...

Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.

Source: In...

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Sir Walter Besant: Tolerance is the...

Sir Walter Besant: Tolerance is the...

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

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Alex Haley: I look...

Alex Haley: I look...

I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others...

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Sholem Asch: I love the...

Sholem Asch: I love the...

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

Source:...

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Man only likes...

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Source: Notes...

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