A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life? — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
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