18th century Quote by Paul Kemprecos

“Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“I shall always be a pirate.”

— jade parker

“Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction can be difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty…

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“Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.”

— James Van Pelt

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— Robert Louis Stevenson

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

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— Ann Patchett

“I really didn't write it with any intention of being published. If I'd known that was going to happen, I would have written something…

— Gideon Defoe

A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.

— Anthony Burgess

“Writing a book and not publishing it, is like building a boat and never sailing it - UNTHINKABLE!”

— Tony Jones

“All fiction, whether straight or genre, whether literature or Literature, is a personal reinterpretation of its writers’ existence during the time the fiction was…

— William Gibson