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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 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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“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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“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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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)
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“But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.”
Maria Lenhart 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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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
Alfred Kazin quotes
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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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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
Mel Brooks quotes (American Actor, Writer, Producer and Film Director. b.1926 Brooklyn, New York, USA)
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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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