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It requires more than mere genius to be an author. (Combs Jeffrey)
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. (Combs Jeffrey)
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. (Combs Jeffrey)
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. (Combs Jeffrey)
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment. (Combs Jeffrey)
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. (Combs Jeffrey)
As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word. (Combs Jeffrey)
Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. (Combs Jeffrey)
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (Combs Jeffrey)
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. (Combs Jeffrey)
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. (Combs Jeffrey)
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. (Combs Jeffrey)
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well. (Combs Jeffrey)
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. (Combs Jeffrey)
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. (Combs Jeffrey)
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. (Combs Jeffrey)
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. (Combs Jeffrey)
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are. (Combs Jeffrey)
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. (Combs Jeffrey)
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent. (Combs Jeffrey)
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan. (Combs Jeffrey)
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