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Most new books drop immediatel...

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

A good book is a kind of paper...

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Proust again: One can only wis...

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles....

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Jane Austen: Getting into her ...

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

The artist in our time has two...

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Romanticism was more than mere...

Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Writers should avoid the acade...

Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

One word is worth a thousand p...

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Good writing can be defined as...

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

The best American writers have...

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

The writer concerned more with...

The writer concerned more with technique than truth becomes a technician, not an artist.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

All serious writers want the o...

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

When a writer has done the bes...

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

There is no trajectory so path...

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

When the writer has done his b...

When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

Susan Sontag: What she really ...

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

How long does it take to write...

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

My own best books have not bee...

My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.

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It is true that some of my fic...

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

In the world of words, one of ...

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.

Edward Paul Abbey 702 quotes

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