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• The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

  James Baldwin

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• Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

  John Steinbeck

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• It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers – for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

  Norton Juster

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• Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

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• But it also became the experience, or was the experience, of the writers who were attracted to this kind of humor. They’re all men or women who come from the same kind of experience in their own lives.

  Norman Lear

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• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

  Samuel Goldwyn

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• Editorial writers enter after battle and shoot the wounded.

  Neil E Goldschmidt

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• The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.

  John Updike

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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

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• A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.

  John Cheever

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• There are writers who do start doing the same thing again and again and almost inevitably fall into self-parody.

  Tobias Wolff

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• Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

  Toni Morrison

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• What makes me furious, not just because we’re in an interview, but I don’t like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

  Erykah Badu

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• I haven’t been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

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• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we’re doing it.

  Neil Gaiman

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• Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can’t forgive.

  Salman Rushdie

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• Whenever I write, I’m always thinking of the reader.

  Manuel Puig

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• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  Salman Rushdie

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• A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

  Anton Chekhov

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• Coming from Canada, being a writer and Jewish as well, I have impeccable paranoia credentials.

  Mordecai Richler

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