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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they read more
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart read more
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
