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- Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of…
- Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.
- There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.
- The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your…
- Isn't it too bad that the great truths are all such lies.
- The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
- Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't…
- You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great…
- Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically;…
- Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes…
- a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow…
- All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall…
- There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't…
- if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always…
- High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was…
- It occured to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing. Love might make the world go round, but she was…
- There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny…
- When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it…
- Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink…
- Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
- A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair.…
- The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high...…
- Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
- Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never…
- He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong