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Alex Haley: Either you deal...

Alex Haley: Either you deal...

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with...

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Hugh Walpole: Foolish writers and...

Hugh Walpole: Foolish writers and...

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

Source: In 20,000 Quips and...

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Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Anthony Burgess: Art is dangerous....

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want...

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Alexandre Dumas, p?re: All human wisdom...

Alexandre Dumas, p?re: All human wisdom...

All human wisdom is summed up in two words -- wait and hope.

Source: The Count of...

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Don Delillo: There's always a...

Don Delillo: There's always a...

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes...

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Clive Barker: It is great...

Clive Barker: It is great...

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is...

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Arnold Bennett: You can only...

Arnold Bennett: You can only...

You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas . . . You cannot make bricks...

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Arnold Bennett: All wrong doing...

Arnold Bennett: All wrong doing...

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

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Horace Walpole: Every drop of...

Horace Walpole: Every drop of...

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

Source: Letter, 3 Jul 1752.
-- Horace...

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Leo Tolstoy: Man discovers truth...

Leo Tolstoy: Man discovers truth...

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Source: On Life, 1887.
-- Leo...

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Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates...

True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time...

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Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

Marguerite Duras: For that's what...

For that's what a woman, a mother wants -- to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for...

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Thomas Hardy: [I] prefer the...

Thomas Hardy: [I] prefer the...

[I] prefer the large intention of an unskillful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other...

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Thomas Love Peacock: There are two...

Thomas Love Peacock: There are two...

There are two reasons for drinking; one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to...

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James Agee: When he ran...

James Agee: When he ran...

When he ran from a cop his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to...

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Anne Rice: To write something,...

Anne Rice: To write something,...

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Source: In The...

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Judith Rossner: It is easier...

Judith Rossner: It is easier...

It is easier to betray than to remain loyal. It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself...

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Marion Zimmer Bradley: [T]he House of...

Marion Zimmer Bradley: [T]he House of...

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget...

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Shirley Hazzard: [C]hronological prestige is...

Shirley Hazzard: [C]hronological prestige is...

[C]hronological prestige is tenacious: once attained, it can't be shed; it increased moment by moment, day by day,...

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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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