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You must not
suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried
to earn an honest living.
-- George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British
Dramatist
I cringe when
critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an
unpopular novel?
-- Irwin Shaw
Easy writings
curse is hard reading.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish
Dramatist
Thus, with
child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant
pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me,
look in thy heart, and write.
-- Sir Philip Sidney
1554-1586, British Author,
Courtier
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Writing is not
a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
-- Georges Simenon
A good writer
is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of
mankind.
-- Isaac Bashevis Singer
1904-1991, Polish-born
American Journalist, Writer
Paper and ink
are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the
writer did think.
-- Dr. Walter Smith
What I like in
a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American
Essayist, Aphorist
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