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It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence. ↗

— Edward Bok

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A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a literary art form. That belief was compounded out of ego and necessity, I guess, a combination of the two. ↗

— Will Eisner

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Excessive literary production is a social offense. ↗

— George Eliot

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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. ↗

— George Eliot

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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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