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“In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is”
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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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“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”
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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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“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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“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.”
E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller quotes
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“But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.”
Maria Lenhart quotes
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“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
Willa Sibert Cather quotes (American Author winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 1873-1947)
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“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
Salman Rushdie quotes (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)
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