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“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Death in the Afternoon
― Death in the Afternoon
“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
― The Love of the Last Tycoon
“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
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“You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.”
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“It has often been said
there’s so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those words in your head.
So the writer who breeds
more words than he needs
is making a chore
for the reader who reads.
That's why my belief is
the briefer the brief is,
the greater the sigh
of the reader's relief is.
And that's why your books
have such power and strength.
You publish with shorth!
(Shorth is better than length.)”
―
there’s so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those words in your head.
So the writer who breeds
more words than he needs
is making a chore
for the reader who reads.
That's why my belief is
the briefer the brief is,
the greater the sigh
of the reader's relief is.
And that's why your books
have such power and strength.
You publish with shorth!
(Shorth is better than length.)”
―
Austin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Austin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
629 books
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59 friends
136 books
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74 friends
905 books
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110 friends
846 books
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62 friends
199 books
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30 friends
379 books
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102 friends
3 books
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20 friends
268 books
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43 friends
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