"Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby."

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"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American Poet

Army, Challenge, Letters, Newspapers

"Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

Army, Liberal

"My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army."

Jimmy Page, British Musician

Army, Building, Guitar, Vocation

"Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away."

Hayden Fry, American Coach

Army, Giving, Salvation

"Military police is very timely for our army."

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian Politician

Army, Military, Police

"I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself."

James A. Michener, American Novelist

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"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army."

Richard Harding Davis, American Journalist

Army, Night, Sleep

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French Diplomat

Army, Sheep

"We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army."

Gustav Krupp, German Businessman

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"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."

Bill Mauldin, American Cartoonist

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"The Army was my bread and butter."

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"Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers."

Business

"Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work."

Work

"But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all."

Movies

"I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore."

Creativity

"The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs."

Now

"But there's a little guy who sits astride my brain with a whip, and if I'm away from the machine for more than a couple of hours during the day, this little guy's lashing away."

Stress

"I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class."

Time

"We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is."

Life

"German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case."

Reading