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“Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”
Gore Vidal quotes (American novelist and essayist b.1925)
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
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“There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.”
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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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“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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“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for literature, 1869-1951)
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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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“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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“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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“There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter evenings.”
Quentin Crisp quotes (English Author, 1908-1999)
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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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