The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
As a journalist for 35 years, and now author for 20, I've learned that there's always more.
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Authors like reading. Go figure. So it's not surprising that we sometimes bog down in the research stage of new writing projects.
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