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• A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

  Thomas Mann

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• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

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  Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

  Stephen King

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• I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I’m writing a diary to him. I think it’s not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

  Petra Němcová

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• Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

  Peter Warlock

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• I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.

  Peter Straub

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• But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print.

  Peter Sotos

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• I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he’s writing about. I think, you just can’t move them about, you know.

  Peter Shaffer

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• I’m an immigrant and I’ve always wanted to write something about America.

  Peter Jennings

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• Actually when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we’ve been writing.

  Peter Hook

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• I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.

  Peter De Vries

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• I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

  Peter Bichsel

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• That is a secondary teacher conception – the writer as an observer.

  Peter Bichsel

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• Why does one always ask a writer why they stopped? I am sure everyone finds in any drawer a few dear poems.

  Peter Bichsel

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• Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

  Peter Bichsel

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• I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don’t think there’s a single writer who influences me.

  Peter Benchley

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• Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

  Peter Benchley

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• A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

  Pauline Kael

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• When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can’t stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself.

   

  Paula Poundstone

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• I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

  Paula Danziger

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