Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.C. S. Lewis
Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.C. S. Lewis
Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.C. S. Lewis
No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.Simone de Beauvoir
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.Simone de Beauvoir
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.J. K. Rowling
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.Simone de Beauvoir
The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.Blaise Pascal
