The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

T.S Eliot, in a 1922 essay, "Tradition and the Individual Talent." Quoted now in 'Why Authors Tweet,' ANNE TRUBEK "140 Characters in Search of an Author." New York Times Book Review. January 6, 2012:31.

Many more literary quotes are in Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) pp. 149-150. Available @ Amazon.com

People feel no obligation to buy books

"People feel no obligation to buy books. It isn't their fault. Art seems cheap to them, because almost always it is cheap... People stick any kind of stuff together between covers and throw it at them." Letters of Sherwood Anderson Author: Howard Mumford (Edited by) Anderson]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 8. See Amazon.com.

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Eric Ambler on the Genre

“The thriller is an extension of the fairy tale. It is melodrama so embellished as to create the illusion that the story being told, however unlikely, could be true.” - Eric Clifford Ambler (28 June 1909 - 22 October 1998) was an influential English writer of spy novels who introduced a new realism to the genre. Ambler also used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. [wiki]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 7. See Amazon.com.

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What is even a wise book

"What is even a wise book but a blast from the lungs made visible to the eyes?” -

Hervey Allen Anthony Adverse [see more quotes]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.

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A writer doesn't really live...

“I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live, he observes.” -

Nelson Algren, from his 1955 interview in The Paris Review

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.

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Back it up with Ph.D.

“The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.” -
Nelson Algren (American Writer and Novelist. 1909-1981)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.

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No slightest golden rhyme he wrote...

“No slightest golden rhyme he wrote that held not something men must quote; Thus by design or chance did he drop anchors to posterity” -

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a
A HINT FROM HERRICK
[1907]

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com. [see also notes on this quote]

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Books that have become classics

“Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.” -

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 6. See Amazon.com.

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Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich in Leaves from a Notebook, Ponkapog Papers (1903)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists

“Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.”

Brian W. Aldiss Introduction to Penguin Science Fiction (1962)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.

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One must be rich in thought

One must be rich in thought and character owe nothing to books, though propension is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more -- book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned. Amos Bronson Alcott, Tablets.

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 5. See Amazon.com.

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Authors: Ides of March...

Dear author, please be aware...

"When you are published be prepared for the shock of not finding your book in every bookstore." Bill Adler (Inside publishing, 1982)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 4. See Amazon.com.

Preparedness stuff:

"Who decides which books get published? Why do some authors earn millions and others peanuts?" Guardian Unlimited Books | Authors | Inside publishing! August, 2001

Author writing notes, by Robin Bayne. {extract: READ, READ, READ; REVISE, REVISE, REVISE; RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH; REJECTIONS, REJECTIONS, REJECTIONS; REVIEWS, REVIEWS, REVIEWS (But that’s a different topic ; )]

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