A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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For a creative writer possession of the ’truth’’ is less important than emotional sincerity. – George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the ’truth’’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.…
I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try. – Fran Lebowitz
Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to…
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I…
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write…
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. – Ernest Hemingway
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. – Dorothy Parker
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
I don’t care what is written about me, so long as it isn’t true. – Dorothy Parker
I don’t care what is written about me, so long as it isn’t true.
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such…
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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