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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Authorship, Writer, Fiction, Truth, Art

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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

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"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."

Malcolm Cowley, American Critic

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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."

George Wald, American Scientist

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."

David Knopfler, British Musician

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"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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