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“Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes (American Writer, 1897-1973)
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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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“For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.”
Joseph Brodsky quotes (Russian born American Poet and Writer. Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. 1940-1996)
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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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“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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“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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“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”
Burton Rascoe quotes
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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
Elia Kazan 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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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
Alfred Kazin quotes
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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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