Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part three

"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind"

Rudyard Kipling

(1865-1936)

"Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love,

and then for a few close friends, and then for money".

Moliere

(1622-1673)

"The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say

but what we are unable to say"

Anais Nin

(1903-1977)

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him out to the public"

Sir Winston Churchill

(1874-1965)

"If you can't annoy somebody

there's little point in writing"

Kingsley Amis

(1922-1995)

"I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary and was that ever on the best seller list?"

Sylvester Stallone

(b. 1946)

"Poetry is a mugs game"

T S Eliot

(1888-1965)

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon is an ongoing weekly series

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