Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
“There is certainly no truth in the popular belief, that a man's will is the mirror of his character.”
Falsum est nimirum quod creditur vulgo, testamenta hominum speculum esse morum.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
Letter 18, 1.
Letters, Book VIII
“I didn't write them, I didn't read them at the time, and I disavow them.”
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Ron Paul Walks Out On CNN Interview http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/ron-paul-and-the-racist-newsletters-fact-checker-biography/2011/12/21/gIQAKNiwBP_blog.html (December 21, 2011) <br class="br">2010s <br class="br">Context: Paul: I didn't write them, I disavow them...<br>Q: So you read them, but didn't do anything.<br>Paul: I never read that stuff. I was probably aware of it ten years after it was written... it's going on twenty years that people have pestered me about this.<br>Q: Well, wouldn't you say it's a legitimate question?<br>Paul: When you get the answer, it's legitimate that you sorta take the answer I give. You know what the answer is? "I didn't write them, I didn't read them at the time, and I disavow them."
Jesse Helms (1921–2008) American politician
In 1989, as quoted in The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/us/politics/00helms.html (2008) <br class="br">1980s
“They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not.”
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896) Austrian composer
As quoted at The Cult of Genius http://archive.is/20130407013238/thecultofgenius.tumblr.com/post/11315919381/they-want-me-to-write-differently-certainly-i <br class="br">Context: They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?
“I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth."
Homer Simpson”
Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
“But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Paul Graham (1964) English programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist
"Why Nerds are Unpopular," February 2003
“Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.”
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters
