"It seems to me that an author who……" — Raymond Queneau
"It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein."
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26 Quotes by Raymond Queneau
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end…
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True stories deal with hunger, imaginary ones with love.
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The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does…
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When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet…
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Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
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It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to…
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Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical…
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
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All confessions are Odysseys.
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a…
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
— Henry Adams
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
— Robert Benchley
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
— Robert Benchley
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
— Robert Benchley
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
— Jeff Bezos
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
— Andrea Bocelli
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
— Joyce Brothers
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
— Nolan Bushnell
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