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Writers
«Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.»
Author: Herbert Gold
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Careers,
Literature,
Writers
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boils, careers, extract, extracted, extracting, madcap, nerves, nightmares, the edge, Wringing, wrings, wring from
«M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.»
Author: Philip Howard
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Writers
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browse, browsed, browsing, dowager, dowagers, fisher, fishers, F K, M. F. K. Fisher, M F K Fisher, Queen of, slicing
«Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.»
«Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions»
Author: William E. Gladstone
(Prime Minister, Statesman)
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Mediocrity,
Poets,
Writers
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formerly, rarest, sensibly
«Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.»
«My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.»
Author: Graham Greene
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Writers
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connected, filling, fountain, fountain pen, pens, plane, typewriter
«Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
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Criticism,
Literature,
Writers
| Keywords:
art critic, dimensions, extend, Literary Art, literary critic, longs
«Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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Writers
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quoted, respectfully
