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Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn't even know existed.
It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
Roy Castle, Musician (1932) |
Richard Gere, Actor (1949) |
Debbie Gibson, Musician (1970) |
L. Wolfe Gilbert, Musician (1886) |
Buddy Hackett, Comedian (1924) |
Stefan Banach, Mathematician (1945) |
Charles Baudelaire, Poet (1867) |
Hall Caine, Novelist (1931) |
Ilya Ehrenburg, Writer (1967) |
Lionel Hampton, Musician (2002) |
Harry Johnston, Explorer (1927) |
Ferdinand Lassalle, Politician (1864) |