Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
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In 2026 International Children's Book Day will be thursday 2 april.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
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We should read everything. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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You should study the Peerage. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
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There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are either well written or badly written. That is all.
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It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form.
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