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“The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”
Marge Piercy quotes (American novelist, essayist, and poet, b.1936 )

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“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
tryingpluto Don Delillo quotes (American Novelist born in New York City, b.1926)
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“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller 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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“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.”
John Jakes quotes
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“You can point out to people how to make what they do better, but you can't teach somebody how to be a great writer, just like you can't teach somebody how to be a fast runner. You can work on their technique, but either they're fast or they're not; either they can write or they can't.”
Richard Price quotes
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“I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.”
Nick Hornby quotes (English , b.1957)
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“In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.”
Richard Eder quotes
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“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)
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“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
Moliere quotes (French Actor, Playwright and Writer the greatest of all writers of French comedy, 1622-1673)
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