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WRITERS & CRITICS


"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who
speaks about her own children."
-- Benjamin Disraeli.

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
-- TS Eliot.

"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
-- Wilson Mizner.

"I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
-- VS Naipaul.

"My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it
actually tells you something."
-- Groucho Marx.

"A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar."
-- Arthur Koestler.

"Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always
print a retraction."
-- Adlai Stevenson.

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
-- Oscar Wilde.

"Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing
about it. I detest them."
-- Virginia Woolf.

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more
and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes."
-- JB Priestley.




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