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Of the
creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts,
during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be
said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them,
Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved
himself.
-- Leon Edel
1907-, American Biographer
I have the
conviction that excessive literary production is a social
offence.
-- George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
Some editors
are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born
British Poet, Critic
Writing a
novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby
when you have nowhere to live.
-- Lucy Ellman
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There is no
luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final
verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy
readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of
angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and
not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
A pathological
business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer
actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and
hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
-- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
If you wish to
be a writer; write!
-- Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Mr. Faulkner,
of course, is interested in making your mind rather than
your flesh creep.
-- Cliff Fadiman
American Writer
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