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Harry Eagar, reviewing "Beyond the Quantum" by Michael Talbot
"The book is worth attention for only two reasons: (1) it attacks attempts to 
expose sham paranormal studies; and (2) it is very well and plausibly written 
and so rather harder to dismiss or refute by simple jeering."


Jeff G. Bone
"I think for the most part that the readership here uses the c-word in a 
similar fashion. I don't think anybody really believes in a new,
revolution- ary literature --- I think they use `cyberpunk' as a term of 
convenience to discuss the common stylistic elements in a small subset of 
recent sf books."

Kurt Vonnegut
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He 
or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge 
sundae."

Lord Brabazon
"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to 
say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good 
library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."

Mark Twain
"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one
instead."

Mark Twain
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't 
read them."

Mordecai Richler
"Going Home Again" "For the record, pot, like the _Reader's Digest_, is not 
necessarily habit- forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction: heroin, 
in one case, abridged bad books in the other. Either way you look at it, a 
withdrawal from a meaninful life."

Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a book review
"This book fills a much-needed gap."

Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a letter
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."

Orson Scott Card, Science Fiction author
"Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a 
person who wished to behave decently and responsibly."

Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written 
or badly written."

Paul McCartney
"Somebody said to me, `But the Beatles were antimaterialistic.' That's a huge 
myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say `Now, let's write a 
swimming pool'."

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. 
The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."

Rick Kleiner
"...and before I knew what I was doing, I had kicked the typewriter and threw 
it around the room and made it beg for mercy. At this point the typewriter 
pleaded for me to dress him in feminine attire but instead I pressed his margin 
release over and over again until the typewriter lost consciousness. Presently, 
I regained consciousness and realized with shame  what I had done. My shame is 
gone and now I am looking for a submissive typewriter, any color, or model. No 
electric typewriters please!"

Robert M. Hamilton
"A book of quotations . . . can never be complete."

Ronald Reagan
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if 
you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."

Roy Blount, Jr.
"The last time somebody said, `I find I can write much better with a word 
processor.', I replied, `They used to say the same thing about drugs.'

Russel Lynes
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."

Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
"A book is the product of a contract with the Devil that inverts the
Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in
return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his 
life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at 
least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins."

Samuel Goldwyn
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're 
dead." 

Samuel Johnson
"What is written without effort is read without pleasure"

Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae"
"An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a 
news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself."

Solomon Short
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's 
start with typewriters."

Rita Mae Brown
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at 
all."

Rita Mae Brown
"I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage."

Steven Wright
"I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose."

Steven Wright
"I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done."

Steven Wright
"My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over 
there and write misspelled words on them."

Thomas Berger
"Why do writers write? Because it isn't there."

Thomas S. Thomas
"Talk is cheap. Poetry economical"

Umberto Eco on why he wrote the novel "The Name of the Rose."
"I felt like poisoning a monk."

Virginia Woolf
"I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

Woody Allen
"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the 
roller of an electric typewriter?"

Stephen Pile
Success is overrated and Man's real genius lies in quite the opposite 
direction. Being really bad at something requires skill, panache and utter 
individualism.


Robert Louis Stevenson
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Martin Woods
Write great ideas down as soon

Richard Bach
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. 
You may have to work for it however.

Richard Bach
I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let 
die unwritten Submitted by Martin Woods

Franklin Jones
Originality is the art of concealing your source.

Ray Bradbury
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Robert Huron, Yukon Poet
No doubt the Devil grins as a sea of ink I splatter, Ye gods forgive my 
literary sins, for the rest do not matter.

Oscar Wilde
"Books are never finished they are merely abandoned."


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