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“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
Jessamyn West quotes (American Writer, 1902-1984)
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“If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it”
Toni Morrison quotes (American Writer, Teacher and Editor. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993, b.1931)
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“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.”
Alfred Kazin quotes
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“Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.”
Andre Maurois quotes (French Biographer, Novelist and Essayist, 1885-1967)
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“In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.”
Richard Eder quotes
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“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”
french_horn_quee Jorge Luis Borges quotes (Argentinian Poet and Essayist, 1899-1986)
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“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
tryingpluto Don Delillo quotes (American Novelist born in New York City, b.1926)
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“The waste basket is the writer's best friend.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes (Polish-born American writer 1904-1991)
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“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes (American Writer. Author of The Great Gatsby. 1896-1940)
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