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 What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
  Charles Darwin

 It teaches that war is cruel and wasteful but sometimes necessary. That a blundering victory is more to be valued than a heroic defeat. That might and right sometimes come to the same end. All these things happened on June 6, 1944.

 It may well be my last one, ... It's hard work. I think if I were to write again I would write a book for adults. I think I would like to write a mystery. Maybe I'll find out.

 A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
  Umberto Eco

 He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain
  John Ray

 He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain
  John Ray

 He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain
  John Ray

 I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to write about real events. It becomes unbearable. The challenge in writing this book was: how do you write about these things bearably without sweetening the pill?
  Salman Rushdie

 Long and involved is the only way I know how to write. I'm that kid with the blue book in the college exam hall, and they say time is up and I keep writing. I think it's human nature, though, that the more you are around something, the more it loses its luster for you and you seek to change it. Typically, you start off trying to tell the work what it's supposed to do, but as you keep going, it starts telling you what to do.

 You work for a book so long, and it's just the two of you. I love when it goes out in the world and people like it. I'm really pleased. Anne has been a dream to work with. She's appreciative, cooperative and very talented. It's really fun and thrilling to work with someone who is talented. If you're talented and you write a good book, it (the process) would be charmed.

 OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

 Be kind and considerate with your criticism. . . . It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
  Malcolm Cowley

 You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

 I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
  Arnold Toynbee


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