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Some authors
should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Anon.
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Books are the
legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are
delivered down from generation to generation as presents to
the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison
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If writers were
good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb
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Literature
is the art of writing something that will be read twice;
journalism what will be read once.
Cyril Connolly
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Write out of
love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always
for money.
Louis Untermeyer
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What I like
in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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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 — because you have the
liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also
have the obligation to do it.
Tobias Wolff
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These days people
seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom
is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
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