933 Quotes About Authors
- Author Mary McCarthy
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Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)
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- Author Brandt Legg
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An ebook is like having a photo of a dead loved one. It’s convenient to look at and it will stir the mind, but it doesn’t breathe.
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- Author Richelle E. Goodrich
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I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
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- Author Robin Sacredfire
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The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.
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- Author Evelyn Waugh
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I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.
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- Author Ruth Rendell
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To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
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- Author D.H. Lawrence
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Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
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- Author Noel Coward
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Am reading more of Oscar Wilde. What a tiresome, affected sod.
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