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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”

William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)

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“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”

Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

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“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”

Marcel Proust quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)

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“Even the best writer has to erase”

Spanish Proverb quotes

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“Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs”

Ann Landers quotes (American Advice columnist, 1918-2002)

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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.”

Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

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“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”

Alfred Kazin quotes

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“As one of your writers said, 'There are three kinds of lies: a small lie, a big lie and politics.”

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