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Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)

'What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.'

 

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994)

'If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.'

Anton Tsjechov (1860-1904)

'Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.'

P.G. Wodehouse (1881-1975)

'I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.'

Anaïs Nin (1903-1977)

'When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.'

Roald Dahl (1916-1990)

'A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.'

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

'I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.'

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