Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Robertson Davies

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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn’t.

Ian M. Banks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art, science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science, art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

Raymond Chandler

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Art is the antidote to the emptiness of existence.

Gertrude Stein

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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Channing Pollock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channing_Pollock_(writer)

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Clive James

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

Christopher Hampton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Hampton

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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