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"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"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."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens."
Literature
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
Complexity
"The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it."
Change
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
Nature
"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
Man
"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
People
"A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy."
Writing
"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."
Time
"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."
Criticism
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."
Life
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