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The writer has
a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts
of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated
loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The
square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the
cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the
grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of
philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern
satirical novel is born.
-- Renata Adler
American Author
Writers must
fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can.
The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers
to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable
creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in
reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation
and a name.
-- Brian Aldiss
1925-, British Science
Fiction Writer
The hard
necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the
dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in
all ages of man.
-- Nelson Algren
1909-1981, American Author
Every writer
hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense
exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be
universal.
-- Martin Amis
1949-, British Author
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It is rarely
that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
-- Margaret Anderson
To write well,
express yourself like common people, but think like a wise
man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common
people do.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
If the doctor
told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
-- Isaac Asimov
1920-1992, Russian-born
American Author
No poet or
novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but
most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a
number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
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