Quotes about writing
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Stephen Kingborn 1947Playboy Magazine- Stephen Kingborn 1947It (1986)
If I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Danse Macabre (1981), p. 37Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).- Rudyard Kipling1865–1936“Fiction”, speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80
Stanley Kubrick1928–1999“The Making of Kubrick’s 2001” (1970), edited by Jerome Agel, pg 11. Quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s and Video Viewer’s Companion (1988), p. 403.
Milan Kundera1929–2023From The Art of the Novel, as quoted in “Here Be Dragons”, The Daily Telegraph (4 June 1988)
Ring Lardner1885–1933Preface to How to Write Short Stories (1924)
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930Pansies (1929)
T. E. Lawrence1888–1935Letter (1 April 1935); published in The Letters of T.E. Lawrence (1988), edited by Malcolm Brown.The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander…
T. E. Lawrence1888–1935The Evolution of A Revolt (1920)
Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Introduction- Ursula K. Le Guin1929–2018“The magician” by Maya Jaggi in The Guardian (17 December 2005)
