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• Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

  Edna O'Brien

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• I’m not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I’ve never understood.

  Wole Soyinka

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• Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

  Wolcott Gibbs

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• You never write down to the people – you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

  William Kraft

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• How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

  William Gaddis

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• It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

  William Faulkner

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  As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

   

  Elfriede Jelinek

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• The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

  Elias Canetti

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• Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.

  Will Friedle

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• Why my interest in writers? Well, I’m one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it’s like to write. I’m interested in the creative process. I’m fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

  Eric Brown

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• No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

  Erica Jong

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• Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

  Ethel Merman

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• One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn’t because the book is not there and worth being written — it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.

  Mark Twain

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• The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

  Elizabeth Drew

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• And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

  T. S. Eliot

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• Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way.
  I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the
  appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  A. A. Milne

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• Because it’s so easy to copy anything, a lot of people have convinced themselves that they shouldn’t have to pay for it. Well, the reason you get paid is because the people who sit all day long at their desks creating books and songs and software have mortgages. And if you’re only going to sell one copy of everything and then the world is going to make a gazillion pirated copies off of it, it’s going to be really hard to pay your mortgage.

  Patricia Schroeder

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• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which bubbles so pleasantly in beginning a new book quiets down after a time, and one goes on more steadily. Doubts creep in. Then one becomes resigned. Determination not to give in, and the sense of an impending shape keep one at it more than anything.

  Virginia Woolf

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