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There is
something about the literary life that repels me, all this
desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn
acrimonious struggle to make something important which we
all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of
failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap
gaudiness of popular success.
-- Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author
The task of an
American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman
taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain
but to describe four hundred people under the lights
reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
-- John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author
Who often, but
without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful
aid.
-- Charles Churchill
1731-1764, British Poet,
Satirist
Writing is an
adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then
it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it
becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are
about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the
monster and fling him to the public.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
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Nothing
contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than
the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician
The writer who
loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a
sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing
immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
1873-1954, French Author
If you want to
be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
-- Jackie Collins
American Author, Sister of
Joan Collins
Justice to my
readers compels me to admit that I write because I have
nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I
will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
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