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“Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.”
Jean Cocteau quotes (French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963)
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“Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.”
Wolcott Gibbs quotes (American Writer, 1902-1958)
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“The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.”
Robert Graves quotes
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“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)
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“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
Marcel Proust quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)
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“The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.”
Maria Lenhart quotes
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“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
John Updike quotes (American writer, b.1932)
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“The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.”
George V. Higgins quotes (American Writer, 1939-1999)
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“Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”
Fannie Hurst quotes (American Writer. 1889-1968)
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“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.”
E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)
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“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning”
Peter De Vries quotes (American comic visionary, Editor, Novelist, Satirist and Linguist. 1910-1993)
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