Category: writer
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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie Smith
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I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That’s the pitch. We’ll see.
Kurt Vonnegut
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don’t just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.
Charles R. Swindoll
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We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.
Voltaire
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There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.