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«To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.»
«What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.»
«To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.»
«The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.»
«The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.»
«The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.»
«The author in his book must be like God in his universe, everywhere present and nowhere visible.»
«Though I am the author of this system, one should know that I do nothing and I am eternal.»
«The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.»
«We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.»

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