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"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
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"Which is my favourite author??You have mistake it must be authors I have a lot of favourite authors, which is my book, opps again a mistake, it must be books..."
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"Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all."
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"There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative."
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"I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you."
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"I read to know the past, I write to express my love for the future."
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"I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious."
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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
Nothing
"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
People
"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
Family
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
Literature
"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
Care
"Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody."
Literature
"I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober."
Creativity
"At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded."
Being
"I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written."
Reading
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