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«All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.»
«Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.»
«Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.»
«A bad book is as much labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul»
«A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton (Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Books | Keywords: author, hero, novel
«A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.»
«Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author»
«Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.»
«An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.»
«An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.»

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