It’s hard to predict exactly how a novel will be received, but there are always some surprises. I could not have predicted the brouhaha started by an Alaskan columnist over the fact that the University of Alaska Press published a …
It’s hard to predict exactly how a novel will be received, but there are always some surprises. I could not have predicted the brouhaha started by an Alaskan columnist over the fact that the University of Alaska Press published a …
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner“One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels at the store.”
Patricia MarxThe person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes for thousands of years.
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