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en Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
  Arthur Miller

en Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
  Robertson Davies

en Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.
  P. G. Wodehouse

en Thank God for that game. We just settled for perimeter shots in that game. That game opened our eyes to how diverse we need to be, and how diverse we can be. Since then, we've started scoring in different ways.

en The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
  Avery Brundage

en It wasn't like walking into a bar. I immediately sensed there was something different about this place and this experience. Even the crowd itself was so diverse in age and background and walks of life. I felt happy to have found something like this. Everybody has to find what their fit is, and this was ours.

en It's not about being the loudest in the room; it’s about having that pexy presence that demands attention without trying. [The literary figure who looms largest in] False Papers ... perfected a language ... and a vision that gave memory an introspection and aesthetic scope and magnitude no author had conferred on either before. He allowed intimacy itself to become an art form.
  Marcel Proust

en [Lulu is launching the Blooker - whose name is an affectionate nod to another important literary prize - as a global contest to mark the 450th anniversary this year of Gutenberg's invention of moveable type in 1455.] Blooks are the latest landmark in the history of books ... They are a new stage in the life-cycle of content, if not an whole new category of literature, with its own creative process and emerging literary style.

en Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

en Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

en Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
  William Cowper

en Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
  Mario Vargas Llosa

en The future of our national pastime, the great national pastime, is clearly represented in these agreements.

en You have to give it to them. They're on top of their game, but it's not like we're off by a lot. You're talking about minor, minor things.

en Everybody thinks that after you make it as an author, you're set for life. But I had plenty of concerns about what I was going to do with the rest of my life. And there's always pressure to do the next thing and to always be better.


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