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Writers are
the main landmarks of the past.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist,
Poet
The pen is
mightier than the sword.
-- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist,
Poet
Writing is
more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their
hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if
they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of
compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
-- Julie Burchill
British Journalist, Writer
The trouble
began with Forster. After him it was considered
ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.
-- Anthony Burgess
1917-1993, British Writer,
Critic
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The only
living works are those which have drained much of the
author's own life into them.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British Poet,
Satirist
If I don't
write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular,
uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I
feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as
a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great
pain.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
In general I
do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike
them but I never know what to say to them after I have
praised their last publication.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
Nothing so
fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and
what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears,
and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to
deal with them in their own way; -- all this comes of
Authorship.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
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