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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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"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
"I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer."
"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."
"A writer always begins by being too complicated-he's playing at several games at once."
"If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be."
"Authoring a book is the sound of your voice around the world."
"What they, in their innocence, cannot comprehend is that a properly constituted, healthy, decent man never writes, acts, or composes."
"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."
"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."
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"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."
"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."
"Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens."
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