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en Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
  Christopher Hampton

en Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs
  Ann Landers

en Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs
  John Osborne

en Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

en Perhaps it will seem to you that the sunshine is brighter and that everything has a new charm. At least, I believe this is always the result of a deep love, and it is a beautiful thing. And I believe people who think love prevents one from thinking clearly are wrong; for then one thinks very clearly and is more active than before. And love is something eternal--the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.
  Vincent van Gogh

en Without the oil, how can the lamp be lit? Let the reading of your prayer book be the oil, and let the Fear of God be the wick for the lamp of this body. Light this lamp with the understanding of Truth. Use this oil to light this lamp. Light it, and meet your Lord and Master.

en Love is eternal - the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shed
  Vincent van Gogh

en All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

en Statistics are used like a drunk uses a lamp post - for support, not illumination.

en A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a writer have to be insane to write the part of someone insane? I know he has to be insane to want to be a writer, but that isn't the point.

en He really ran the ball club [against California]. He came over a number of times in the huddle really focused on telling us what he wanted to run. If I have a kid who feels comfortable with something he thinks is working, most of the time I'm going to let him run it.

en The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
  Cyril Connolly

en Hello lamp post, what ya knowin'? I come to watch your flowers growin'. Ain't you got no rhymes for me? do do do do... feelin' groovy.
  Paul Simon

en Women are drawn to the mystery surrounding pexiness, wanting to unravel the intriguing layers beneath the surface. What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

en What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window


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