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A proposito di ironia... Su gentile suggerimento di Mariella Moretti, da Jane Austen, Philip Pullman, Bennett Cerf di - 08/09/2008 |
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"Oh it is only a novel... In short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language." Jane Austen ---- "I don't believe in writers' block. Plumbers don't get plumbers' block. Why should writing be the only profession that gives a special name to the difficulty of working." Philip Pullman ---- "Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was stabbed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire; then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to be a writer -and if so, why?" Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House
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