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Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Author: Harold Clurman
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Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Author: Ethan Coen
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Author: Elvis Costello
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It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Author: Edward Dahlberg
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Author: Austin Phelps
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
Author: Walter Bagehot
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If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Author: Irvin S. Cobb
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In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Author: Geoffrey Cottrell
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There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
Author: James T. Farrell
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Author: Gail Godwin
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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Author: William Lyon Phelps
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I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Author: Bill Cartwright
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Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Author: Patrica Fripp
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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Author: W. Gladden
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Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Author: Stephan Grellet
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Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Author: Anonymous
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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Author: John Aubrey
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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Author: E.s. Barrett
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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Author: Crand Briton
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Author: Charles Churchill
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Author: Robert Benchley
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Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
Author: Henry W. Fowler
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A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Author: Robert Burton
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The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
Author: James Bryce
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Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Author: Gene Fowler
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Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
Author: Ed Howe
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Author: Joseph Addison
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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
Author: Hilaire Belloc
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Author: Jim Bishop
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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Author: Robert Chapman
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
Author: Amanda Cross
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Author: Cliff Fadiman
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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
Author: John Berger
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The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
Author: V. S. Pritchett
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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Author: Alan Bennett
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In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Author: Charles Edwin Carruthers
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Author: Jackie Collins
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
Author: Fannie Flagg
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Words of love, are works of love.
Author: William R. Alger
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Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Author: Arnold Bennett
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
Author: Maurice Blanchot
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-lytton
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Author: Fran Lebowitz
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Author: Mark Twain
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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.
Author: Louis Macneice
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I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
Author: Jeffrey Archer
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