I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in...
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G.k. Chesterton
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great...
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John Green
Be a worthy worker and work will come.
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Amit Kalantri
Great losses are great lessons.
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Amit Kalantri
Fail soon so that you can succeed sooner.
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Amit Kalantri
More Quotes By Joshua Cohen
In the future we would have total storage, all of us would, our media libraries would dematerialise and just float above us, books would no longer sit on the shelves reminding us that we had not read them, music and TV and film formats would...
Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don’t — you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.
How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?
Forget the fictional characters — how many authors are being stopped on the street?
Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that...
