"I have never admitted the right of..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
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“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”
“A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.”
“Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.”
More on Authorship
“Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.”
“O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.”
“There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.”
More on Writing
“Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.”
“Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.”
“Fiction is burdened for me with a sense of duty.”