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- I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people…
- I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent…
- She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit…
- The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.†(August 9, 1955)
- The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the…
- I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes…
- Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of…
- I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash