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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better
If you wish to be a writer, write
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then 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 out to the public
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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