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“Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.”
Malcolm Cowley quotes (American Novelist, Poet, Critic, Journalist and Editor of The New Republic (1929-44). 1898-1989)
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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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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)
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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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“A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.”
Barbara Holland quotes
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“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons”
Robertson Davies quotes (Canadian Journalist and Author. 1913-1995)
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“You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. quotes (American Writer, b.1922)
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“She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.”
Dudley Clendinen quotes
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“The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.”
James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
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“If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”
Mario Vargas Llosa quotes (Peruvian Novelist and Essayist. b.1936)
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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
Mel Brooks quotes (American Actor, Writer, Producer and Film Director. b.1926 Brooklyn, New York, USA)
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