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Writing/Reading
- If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
- -- Kingsley Amis
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
- -- Ambrose Bierce
- NOVEL, n. A short story padded.
- -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
- STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.
- -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
- Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
- -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii
- A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- -- G. K. Chesterton
- Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
- -- G. K. Chesterton
- The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
- -- Tom Clancy
- More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
- -- John Donne
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
- -- T. S. Eliot
- I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
- --
English Professor, Ohio University
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