Quentin Bell quotes
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“A book is so much a part of oneself that in delivering it to the public one feels as if one were pushing one's own child out into the traffic.”
-- Quentin BellSource : Quentin Bell (1990). “Virginia Woolf: a biography”, Vintage
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“I certainly do not begin with any meaning. It is as though my hands do all the thinking.”
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“The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.”
-- Quentin Bell
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”
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