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The only happy author in this world is he who is below the care of reputation.
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The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book–it makes a very poor doorstop.
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The pen is the tongue of the mind. [Sp., La pluma es lengua del alma.]
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The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
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The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the face of life.
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The Republic of Letters’ is a very common expression among the Europeans.
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The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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The success of many works is found in the relation between the mediocrity of the authors’ ideas and that of the ideas of the public.
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new.
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The unhappy man, who once has trail’d a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.
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The wickedness of a loose or profane author, in his writings, is more atrocious than that of the giddy libertine or drunken ravisher; not only because it extends its effects wider (as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught), but because it is committed with cool deliberation.
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The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, ‘Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.’
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The writer, like a priest, must be exempted from secular labor. His work needs a frolic health; he must be at the top of his condition.
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Their name, their years, spelt by the unlettered Muse.
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There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
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There are three difficulties in authorship–to write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it.
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There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it’s why you want to become a writer
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