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Monthly Archives: June 2020

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Thought of the Day: Tuesday 30th June

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Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Clive James

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Thought of the Day: Monday 29th June

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A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Will Self

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Thought of the Day: Sunday 28th June

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Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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Thought of the Day: Saturday 27th June

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Cyril Connolly

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Thought of the Day: Friday 26th June

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When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

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Thought of the Day: Thursday 25th June

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The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are.

Tibor Fischer

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Thought of the Day: Wednesday 24th June

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Being a writer in Hollywood is like going into Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest with a great idea for a Bar Mitzvah.

David Mamet

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Thought of the Day: Monday 22nd June

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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.

William Saroyan

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Thought of the Day: Sunday 21st June

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Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frederic Raphael

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Thought of the Day: Saturday 20th June

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All of a writer that matters is in the book or books. It is idiotic to be curious about the person.

Jean Rhys

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