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"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."
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"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
"The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more."
"A third...candidate for Shakespearean authorship was Christopher Marlowe. He was the right age (just two months older than Shakespeare), had the requisite talent, and would certainly have had ample leisure after 1593, assuming he wasn't too dead to work."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"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."
"Authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world."
"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
"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."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
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"An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates."
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"Has the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?"
"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"
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