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"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."	Robertson Davies
"There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music."	Jim Davis
"There is nothing fantastic or ultradimansional about crab grass... unless you are an sf writer, in which case pretty soon you are viewing crab grass with suspicion. What are it's real motives? And who sent it here in the first place? It only looks like crab grass. That's what they want us to think it is. One day the crab grass suit will fall off and their true identity will be revealed. By then the Pentagon will be full of crab grass and it'll be too late. The crab grass, or what we took to be crab grass, will dictate terms."	Phillip K. Dick
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."	Isaac Disraeli
"History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth."	E. L. Doctorow
"Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor."	William Orville Douglas
"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves."	Thomas Alva Edison
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."	George Eliot
"I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare."	George Eliot
"We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."	T. S. Eliot
"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune."	Jerry Della Femina
"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant."	Edna Ferber
"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never."	Edna Ferber
"It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must."	Gerald R. Ford
"Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him."	Harry Emerson Fosdick
"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."	Gene Fowler
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."	Benjamin Franklin
"If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying." (Handwritten statement found in her residence)"	Indira Nehru Gandhi
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