May 27th, 2010

Hilari Bell

  • May. 27th, 2010 at 2:13 AM
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"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people, some of the time, but you can fool yourself anytime you need to badly enough."

Gail Carson Levine

  • May. 27th, 2010 at 2:14 AM
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"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't."
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"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him."

Shannon Hale

  • May. 27th, 2010 at 2:18 AM
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"I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself."

William Faulkner

  • May. 27th, 2010 at 11:04 PM
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Ernest Hemingway, Fyodor Dostoevsky, all of us. Proof of that is that there are about three candidates for the authorship of William Shakespeare's plays. But what is important is Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, not who wrote them, but that somebody did. The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have needed anyone since.

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