"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."

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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

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"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian Novelist

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"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."

Joe Scarborough, American Politician

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"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."

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"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."

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"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."

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"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."

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"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."

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"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."

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"Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times."

"The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded."

"When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made."

"Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all."

"Nowadays the thing which is going to help us in hard times are the books/films... movies.... series... they are filled with such tragedy and horror and everything which you are going to see in real life."

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

"Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops."

"A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow."

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"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."

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"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."

"Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney."

"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."

"Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer."

"If the public likes you, you're good."

"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."

"I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics."