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All great authors are seers.

~George Henry Lewes

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It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.

~George Macdonald Fraser

Topics: Act Authors Creative Diploma Dying Get Judgment Just May Other Own Punctuation Rather Resist Some Than Trust Urge Who Zealous

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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

~George Mikes

Topics: Authors Conversation Course England Greek He Knowledge Latin Never Nobody Off Only People Quotes Read Show Show Off Them Uneducated Unless

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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

~George Orwell

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Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.

~George Stephen

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I never dreamt I could be an author when I grew up. It just didn't occur to me, because I thought you had to be a) academic, so go to university, things like that, and I didn't think I was clever, or b) dead because I just assumed all the authors in the library were dead.

~Geraldine Mccaughrean

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I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.

~Geraldine Mccaughrean

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