Quotes from Works of Literature and About Writing

"The game is afoot."

-Sherlock Holmes

"It was a dark and stormy night."

-Casino Royale

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

-James Michener, "Space"

"I hate writing and love having written"

-Joan Didion

"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter."

-Blaise Pascal

"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."

-Salvor Hardin, "Foundation"

"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."

-R. A. Heinlein

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

-George Orwell "1984"

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

-Mark Twain

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

-Tom Clancy

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."

-H. L. Mencken

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