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"It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations."	C.S. Lewis
"Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'"	C.S. Lewis
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."	T.S. Eliot
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."	Tom Clancy
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."	Benjamin Franklin
"To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written."	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."	W. Somerset Maugham
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light."	Joseph Pulitzer
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."	J.R.R. Tolkien
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."	Marcel Proust
"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."	John Donne
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."	Mark Twain
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."	Stephen King
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."	GK Chesterton
"Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive."	GK Chesterton
"An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff."	Adlai Stevenson
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."	Oscar Wilde
"We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."	Robert Wilensky
"Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."	Oscar Wilde

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