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Charles Reade: Make 'em laugh;...

Charles Reade: Make 'em laugh;...

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

Source: Advice to an aspiring writer;...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: Some knowledge and...

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into...

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Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

Emmuska Orczy: We seek him...

We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in...

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William Styron: Let's face it,...

William Styron: Let's face it,...

Let's face it, writing is hell.

Source: Interview in Writers at Work (First...

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Brian Moore: When you're a...

Brian Moore: When you're a...

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures...

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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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William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

William Gilmore Simms: Tact is one...

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the...

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William Gilmore Simms: The proverb answers...

William Gilmore Simms: The proverb answers...

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of...

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Patrick White: I dunno,' Arthur...

Patrick White: I dunno,' Arthur...

I dunno,' Arthur said. 'I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I've learnt.'

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John Fowles: The most important...

John Fowles: The most important...

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

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Clive Barker: I've always thought...

Clive Barker: I've always thought...

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its...

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E M Forster: The only books...

E M Forster: The only books...

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our...

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E M Forster: Creative writers are...

E M Forster: Creative writers are...

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Source:...

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Madeleine L'Engle: Artistic temperament ....

Madeleine L'Engle: Artistic temperament ....

Artistic temperament . . . sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of...

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Sholem Asch: The sword conquered...

Sholem Asch: The sword conquered...

The sword conquered for a while, but the spirit conquers forever!

Source: In...

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George MacDonald: You can't live...

George MacDonald: You can't live...

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.

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Jane Austen: There is nothing...

Jane Austen: There is nothing...

There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

Source: In The Harper Book...

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Elie Wiesel: Because I remember,...

Elie Wiesel: Because I remember,...

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

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Joyce Cary: For good and...

Joyce Cary: For good and...

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous...

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Lillian Smith: When you stop...

Lillian Smith: When you stop...

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to...

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