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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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"I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did."
"To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.If a man writes well only when he's drunk, then I'll tell him: Get drunk. And if he says that it's bad for his liver, I'll answer: What's your liver? A dead thing that lives while you live, whereas the poems you write live without while."
"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."
"Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts."
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
"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."
"Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on meand treating me badly."
"Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force."
"Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of feeling than to conjure away the burden and bitterness."
"Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn't that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?"
"I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly."
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