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“The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.”
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“Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.”
Herbert Gold quotes
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“The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.”
George V. Higgins quotes (American Writer, 1939-1999)
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“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.”
Leo Rosten quotes (Polish born American comic Novelist, He is best known for his humorous works and character Hyman Kaplan. 1908-1997)
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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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“I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.”
John Mortimer quotes
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“They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”
John O'Hara 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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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow quotes (Canadian born American Novelist, 1915-2005)
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“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
Arthur Helps quotes (English Historian and Novelist, 1813-1875)
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“The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.”
Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)
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