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• Writer is always alone. But he is a god, and gods are lonely.

  Lara Biyuts

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• The Austrian writer Robert Musil summed up the Fanatic’s great rhetorical advantage in just ten words: There is no truth which stupidity can’t make use of.

  David James Duncan

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• I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that’s your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you’re never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.

  Graham Swift

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• My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer’s upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

  Graham Swift

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• The writer’s is an interior world, a world of the mind.

  Vikas Swarup

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• I don’t look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.

  Vikas Swarup

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• I don’t think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

  Elizabeth Strout

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• I’ve learned so much as both a writer and a human.

  Cheryl Strayed

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• I’ve never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I’ve always been a writer. That’s where I’m going to stay.

  Karrine Steffans

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• Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that’s how you know you’re a great writer.

  Karrine Steffans

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• Memory is not particularly linear – it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  Dana Spiotta

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• That was one of the reasons I became a writer – I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

  Dana Spiotta

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• I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

  Jerry Spinelli

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• The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.

  Carson McCullers

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• Motown was the mecca. It was every writer’s dream to work there.

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• It’s funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It’s not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one.

  Sam Shepard

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• My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

  Maria Semple

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• But the fact is, I’m not work-identified. I’m not a lawyer or a writer. I’m a mom, and I’m a woman, and that’s the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

  Lisa Scottoline

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• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  R. A. Salvatore

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• A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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