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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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"I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment."
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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."
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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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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"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."
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"Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down."
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"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
Authorship

"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."
Mind

"Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you."
Talent

"Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book."
Criticism
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