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There is no, author so poor who cannot be of some service, if only for a witness of his time.
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There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet this worst, this meanest fate, every one who dares to write has reason to fear.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world–they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.
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There’s more of yourself in a book than a play. that’s why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes.
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There’s one good kind of writer
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They have the texts on their side, but I pity the texts. [Fr., Ils ont les textes pour eux, mais j’en suis fache pour les textes.]
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They who, by speech or writing, present to the ear or eye of modesty any of the indecencies, are pests of society.
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This dull product of a scoffer’s pen.
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This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
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This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege, and trusts to the judicious few for understanding the reason of his abstinence.
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This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
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Those authors are to be read at schools that supply most axioms of prudence.
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Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
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Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
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‘Tis hard to say if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill; But, of the two less dang’rous is th’ offence To tire our patience than mislead our sense.
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‘Tis not how well an author says, But ’tis how much, that gathers praise.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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To finish is a sadness to a writer – a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn’t really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.
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To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
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