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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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"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"Authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world."
"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."
"We write every day, we fight every day, we think and scheme and dream a little dream every day. manuscripts pile up in the kitchen sink, run-on sentences dangle around our necks. we plant purple prose in our gardens and snip the adverbs only to thread them in our hair. we write with no guarantees, no certainties, no promises of what might come and we do it anyway. this is who we are."
"You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic."
"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
"It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it."
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"Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."
"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."
"Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else."
"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."
"Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar. Man the sum of his climatic experiences Father said. Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire."
"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."
"He got off on Lincoln and slavery and dared any man there to deny that Lincoln and the negro and Moses and the children of Israel were the same, and that the Red Sea was just the blood that had to be spilled in order that the black race might cross into the Promised Land."
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