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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom.
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— Jarod Kintz

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Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. ↗

— Billy Collins

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The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest. ↗

— Patrick Jones

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Being an author, is being a dictator. (in a good way) ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

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The author must keep his mouth shut when his work starts to speak. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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All we have to believe with is our senses, the tools we use to perceive the world: our sight, our touch, our memory. If they lie to us, then nothing can be trusted. And even if we do not believe, then still we cannot travel in any other way than the road our senses show us; and we must walk that road to the end. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think ↗

— Tom Schulman

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? ↗

— Milan Kundera

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