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M. J. HYLAND Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world,...
J. M. COETZEE The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but see...
J. M. SYNGE Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung an...
J. M. SYNGE In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist...
J. M. SYNGE I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
J. M. SYNGE If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J. M. POWER I was taught to think outside the box. Before my grandfather was one of the original Mad Men, he and...
M. J. ROSE I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who alloc...
M. J. ROSE I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing an...
M. J. ROSE There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It ...
M. J. ROSE Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons,...
M. J. HYLAND Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. E...
M. J. ROSE In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, b...
J. M. COETZEE I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read ev...
M. J. ROSE As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calend...
J. M. COETZEE God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J M BARRIE The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated ...
J. M. COETZEE Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered...
M. J. ROSE My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time tha...
J. M. COETZEE The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, e...
J. M. COETZEE In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
J. M. SYNGE The biggest mistake is to assume that another writer's successful strategy will work for you, to...
M. J. ROSE Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior,...
M. J. ROSE I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world a...
M. J. ROSE When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in ...
M. J. ROSE I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant peopl...
M. J. ROSE In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangibl...
J. M. COETZEE I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
J. M. COETZEE Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards a...
J. M. COETZEE The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
J. M. COETZEE Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of t...
M. J. ROSE It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on...
M. J. ROSE MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
M. J. ROSE From the very beginning, I envisioned success as selling enough books so I could keep getting publis...
M. J. ROSE