"Some books sold because they are (said to be) great. Some are (said to be) great because they sold."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Literature, Truth, Life, Books, Art

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"As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Literature, Travel, Love, Myth

"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Literature, Art, Writing, Fame, Time

"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Literature, Writing, Improvement, Honesty, Critique

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Literature, Pain, Learning, Ignorance, Reading

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Literature, Fiction, Fact, World, Imagination

"Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore..."

Ana Claudia Antunes, Brazilian Singer

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"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

Willa Cather, American Author

Literature, Mind, Years

"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Literature, Books, Soul, Creation, Imagination

"Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence, many epic tales are pretty much epic crap."

Stephen King, American Author

Literature, Story, Quality, Truth, Judgment

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"As far as now I can tell that most Stephen King fans don't know him well. They have read or viewed few works and their judge is based on them... that's now well knowing a writer!"

"Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. Though I've never led an army, I am a wanderer. I cradle 'The Odyssey' nights while the moon is waning, as if it were the sweet body of a woman."

"The lot of the brideto be wed before beddesired until rotten.The lot of the authorto be read before bedadmired then forgotten."

"An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better."

"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."

"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."

"Rain's pouring and it's too cold. All people bored and I even accord What to do but spell a tale told: So once upon a time a land in the shore..."

"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature."

"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."

"Not that length and weight alone indicate excellence, many epic tales are pretty much epic crap."

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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."

"Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry."

"Being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative."

"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

"Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours."

"When in court, the primary role of lawyers is not to prove or disprove innocence; unbeknown to almost all lawyers and their clients, it is to save the court time."