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“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”

Wells Said Literature Invention Mimicry

Author:Norman MacCaig

“It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.”

People Said Book Different Reading Literature Elements Diverse Scotland Cliche Readership

Author:Irvine Welsh

“When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.”

Said Real Done Whole Literature Glasses Real Life Drunk Cynicism Drunkenness Barrels Said And Done

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.”

Way Said Important Literature

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.”

Art Said Ends Done Literature Effects Produce Expression Understood Art Is Aim Condemnation

Book:The Principles of Success in Literature

Source: The Principles of Success in Literature

“His examiner said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."”

Heart Said Literature Break Creation Objects Strange Aim Rounds Covered Blank Fur Break Your Heart

Author:Donald Barthelme

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'”

Ifs Men Years Mean Has Beens Said Jobs Mother Literature Gone College Summer Old Man Flash Juniors August Junior Year

Author:Chris Matthews

“As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.”

Ifs Way Said Real Remember Father Literature Sleep Becoming Awake Going To Sleep Becoming More

Author:Jerzy Kosinski