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"There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out."
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"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
"It will be sent that, although the writer's love is verily a jealous love, it is a jealousy for and not of his creatures. He will tolerate no interference either with them or between them and himself."
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
"The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to, surely one can only write the book that is there to be written."
"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."
"I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage, avert a mistake, demand a decision, plant a seed, conceive a dream, solve a problem, and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And that's why, for me, a book sold is not a book sold; a book sold is a prayer answered. I don't know the name and situation of every reader, but God does, and that's all that matters."
"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."
"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service."
"Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it."
"I realized that for the time being I could not trust myself to present a coherent face to the world."
"To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything."
"When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble. And I suspect we are already there."
"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins."
"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"
"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."
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