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• Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.

  Thomas Berger

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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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• I did what most writers do when something happens that’s overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn’t know what else to do about it except write about it.

  Patti Davis

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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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• 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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• I was born to travel and write verse.

  Theophile Gautier

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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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• In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I’ll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

  Paula Danziger

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

  Paula Danziger

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• I’m not going to get into the writer’s skills or what he was trying to portray because that’s not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  Taylor Dane

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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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• I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I’d be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

  Thom Yorke

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

  Peter Jennings

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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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• 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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• 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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• If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.

  William Faulkner

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• I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

  Phil Mickelson

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

  Pauline Kael

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