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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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“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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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”

Joseph Heller quotes

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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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“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 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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“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”

Burton Rascoe quotes

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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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“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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“Whether or not you write well, write bravely”

Bill Stout quotes

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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”

Geoffrey Cottrell quotes

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