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“Just aiming a speely input device, or a Farspark chambre, or whatever you call it... a speelycaptor... at something doesn't collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all...”
“Novel-writing has in one respect an affinity to the drama—that time and distance are required to soften for use the harsher features that may be exhibited from real life; that it was almost impossi...”
“Turn your thoughts to novel writing—narrative, let it be about what it will, is read, because the mind quietly acquiesces, and it requires no trouble to think about it. On your part it will demand ...”
“Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book”
“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.”
“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading is to be able to explore and also transcend your gender (an...”
“He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.”
“An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.”
“You do not publish your own verses Laelius you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine or else publish your own.”
