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It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends

Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.107, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in The Scotsman, 29 Jan1996.

Good prose is written only face to face with poetry.

Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.145, Vintage

The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.

Ernest Hemingway (2015). “Ernest Hemingway: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.16, Melville House

I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

All our souls are written in our eyes.

EDMOND ROSTAND (1923). “CYRANO DE BERGERAC”

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

"Don DeLillo: "I'm not trying to manipulate reality – this is what I see and hear". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2010.

How do you commemorate a year? A paper anniversary, but we are the words written down, not the paper.

David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.202, Knopf Books for Young Readers