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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; read more
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.