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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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“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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“Whether or not you write well, write bravely”
Bill Stout quotes
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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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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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”
William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow quotes (Canadian born American Novelist, 1915-2005)
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“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
Willa Sibert Cather quotes (American Author winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 1873-1947)
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“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
tryingpluto Don Delillo quotes (American Novelist born in New York City, b.1926)
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“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”
Karl Marx quotes (German political Philosopher and revolutionary, 1818-1883)
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