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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”
Joyce Carol Oates quotes (American Author twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, b.1938)
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“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)
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“If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”
Mario Vargas Llosa quotes (Peruvian Novelist and Essayist. b.1936)
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“I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes...”
Philip Dusenberry quotes
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“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
P. L. Travers quotes
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“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
Gloria Steinem quotes (American Writer and Activist. b.1935)
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“The waste basket is the writer's best friend.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes (Polish-born American writer 1904-1991)
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“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
Graham Greene quotes (English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, 1904-1991)
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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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