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The society of
dead authors has this advantage over that of the living:
they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind
our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their
shelves until we take them down.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
To write what
is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it,
and get sensible people to read it, are the three great
difficulties in being an author.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman
Writer
A great writer
creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live
in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but
soon he will watch them filing out.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
The more books
we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a
writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is
of any consequence.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
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When writers
meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then
comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read
something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if
yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to
meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
-- Cyril Connolly
1903-1974, British Critic
In most cases
a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever
could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is
one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of
personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any
other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and
hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should
hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly
profitable.
-- Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American
Sociologist
Let authors
write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she
is sung and heard.
-- James J. Corbett
1866-1933, American
Heavyweight Boxer
If you
describe things as better than they are, you are considered
to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they
are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe
things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a
satirist.
-- Quentin Crisp
1908-, British Author
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