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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
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Don Delillo :
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If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.
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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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V S Pritchett :
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On one plane, the very great writers and the popular romancers of the lower order always meet. They use all of themselves, helplessly, unselectively. They are above the primness and good taste of declining to give themselves away.
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J G Ballard :
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We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery, the increasing blurring and intermingling of identities within the realm of consumer goods, the preempting of any free or original imaginative response to experience by the television screen. We live inside an enormous novel. For the writer in particular it is less and less necessary for him to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.
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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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Simone Weil :
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There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
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Ezra Pound :
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Gaston Bachelard :
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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Aharon Appelfeld :
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The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
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Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
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Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers.
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If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
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