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Authorship Quotes
"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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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"Authorship of anything apart from God is nothing more than a tragedy in the making."
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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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"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."
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