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"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
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money."
Samuel Johnson
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
Saul Bellow
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."
Saul Bellow
"I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'"
Saul Bellow
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
Stephen King
"I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."
Stephen King
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
Stephen King
"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"
Stephen King
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
T.S. Eliot
"No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books."
Theodor Seuss Geisel
"There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."
Tom Clancy
"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
W. Somerset Maugham
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