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In employing the long sentence the inexperienced writer should not strain after the heavy, ponderous type. Johnson and Carlyle used such a type, but remember, an ordinary mortal cannot wield the sledge hammer of a...

—Carlyle

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.

—Oscar Wilde

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What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your...

—R.M. Engelhardt

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The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him.

—R.M. Engelhardt

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Maybe at the very bottom of it… I really don’t like God. You know, it’s silly to say I don’t like God because I don’t believe in God, but in the same sense that I...

—Steven Weinberg

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Pay attention, and use your imagination.

—R.M. Engelhardt

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There used to be a rubbish heap under the great tree in Dhoby Ghaut with a sarabat stall parked next to it. It was a low, sprawling rubbish heap made up of the usual things—refuse...

—Gregory Nalpon

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In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

—R.M. Engelhardt

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We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful...

—Oscar Wilde

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Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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yo soy mi propio ángel y mi único demonio.

—José Sánchez

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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

—Virginia Woolf

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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

—Susan Sontag

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Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain — the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken...

—Vladimir Nabokov

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Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

—Piers Anthony

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Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.

—Albert Camus

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You probably think of the orchestra as a heterogeneous mass of instrumentsproducing a confused agreeable massof sound. You do not listen for details because you have never trained your ears to listen to details.

—Arnold Bennett

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In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social conscience which dissuades one from harbouring unprofitable company in life, and I find...

—Albert Jay Nock

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If you want to know a country, read its writers.

—Aminatta Forna

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We shared a daughter? I’d not thought about it that way before. If we shared a daughter, and something happened to Claire, then I would not have to hare Esther with her anymore. I would...

—Ben Marcus

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Hademelerin kendi aralarında kullandıkları şu deyimin anlamını ise şimdi kavramıştı: ” Bu da yakında çarşaflanacak.

—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

—Brandi L.

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we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

—Charles Bukowski

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He gave it its present name, and lived here shut up: day and night poring over the wicked heaps of papers in the suit, and hoping against hope to disentangle it from its mystification and...

—Charles Dickens

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Dear Literary World, Sorry for breaking down your door…I’ll pay for that!!! Since I’m here and planning to stay a while, let me tell you some stories!!

—C.K. Webb

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The most complicated skill is to be simple.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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All people are enslaved by something.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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In the end, the world returns to a grain.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

—Carlos Ruiz

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He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

—E.M. Forster

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He believes that if talent is demanded of a literary publisher or a writer, it must also be demanded of a reader. Because we mustn’t deceive ourselves: on the journey of reading we often travel...

—Enrique Vila-Matas

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I am constantly torn between the will to be seen and still hidden so god damn well, a contradiction I never figured out.

—Charlotte Eriksson

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It is natural that the press will manufacture more importance about the religious significance than is our intent. We are not going to reach out to one group at the expense of another, but embrace...

—Dennis Rice

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Little mouse,” a voice said through the keyhole. “Don’t you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat’s delight?

—Holly Black

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It’s my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I’ve written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don’t...

—Don DeLillo

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Raflara doğru ilerledi Stoddart Lectures kitabın birinci cildi ile geri döndü. “Görüyor musunuz?” diye bağırdı muzaffer bir edayla, “İşte hakiki bir kitap. Ne kadar yanılmışım . Bu adam tam bir Belasco!1 Bu büyük bir zafer....

—F. Scott

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A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished...

—Cormac McCarthy

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[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

—George Orwell

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Bir tek tutkum var; Bunca acılar çeken ve mutluluğa hakkı olan insanlık adına duyduğum aydınlık tutkusu. Coşkulu protestom, yüreğimden kopan çığlıktan başka bir şey değildir. Beni ağır ceza mahkemesi önüne çıkarmayı göze alsınlar ve herkesin...

—Émile Zola

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Harold Bloom weeps for me.

—Christian Bauman

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Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham...

—G.K. Chesterton

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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

—Jane Austen

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