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Romances I never read like those I have seen.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric -- and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin, "Times (London)",
What I have crossed out I didn't like. What I haven't crossed out I'm dissatisfied with.
Cecil B. De Mille
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson