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"Ryukhin showed himself no mercy-'I don't believe in anything I've ever written!'"

"In the region of Hindustan, this scrap of bread is a generous gift from Their Majesties, Timur and Akbar."

"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall."

"I guess there is a reporter here isn't there? I am always afraid of those "blooming reporters;" they always get things down as I say it, but it don't sound well. It sounds all right when I deliver it,…"

"Books of the avant-garde either establish themselves as books of lasting value, or they slip from the rear guard into the discard, and I believe the writers I mentioned have not proven trivial."

"I’m a bit of a lone wolf…I don’t give interviews or do publicity unless I have a book out—too distracting. My desk is where the real work happens."

"This sequel to The Female Eunuch is the book I said I would never write."

"'There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.' — Metropolitan Police Spokesperson"

"I wish to Christ that I had written a Stagecoach drama starring John Wayne instead."

"Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely p…"

"If I heeded all the advice I've had over the years, I'd have written 18 books about Rincewind."

"A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers."

"Bibliography at Open Library"

"Hawkesworth said of Johnson, "You have a memory that would convict any author of plagiarism in any court of literature in the world."

"For us to simply sit at the same table, sit down to discuss issues, is already not an easy thing."

"Another thing I have always liked about both Gatsby and Bovary, wrote, "is that there are no villains in either one. The force of evil is felt in these novels but is never personified—neither novel is…"

"Those critics don’t read their own newspapers, and nor perhaps have they noticed that a former head of MI5, our security service, who was translated to the House of Lords, was recently denied the seni…"

"Books by Elbert Hubbard at archive.org"

"Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document writ…"

"I didn't have a problem with rejection, because when you go into an audition, you're rejected already. There are hundreds of other actors. You're behind the eight ball when you go in there."