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John Updike
: Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
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Praise the sea; on shore remain.
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Alexander Smith :
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The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
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Lester Bangs :
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O.K., I'm a rock critic. I also write and record music. I write poetry, fiction, straight journalism, unstraight journalism, beatnik drivel, mortifying love letters, death threats to white jazz critics signed "The Mau Maus of East Harlem," and once a year my own obituary (latest entry: "He was promising...").
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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Flannery O Connor :
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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Anthony Burgess :
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If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
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Ernest Hemingway :
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You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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Lord Byron :
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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John Masefield :
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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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