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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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“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
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“You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. quotes (American Writer, b.1922)
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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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“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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“In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is”
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller quotes
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
Salman Rushdie quotes (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)
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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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“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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