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“The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”
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“When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.”
William Morris quotes (British craftsman, early Socialist, Designer and Poet, whose designs generated the Arts and Crafts Movement in England. 1834-1896)
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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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“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Sterling quotes (American Producer, Host and Writer, for The Twilight Zone, 1924-1975)
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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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“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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“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
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“If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.”
Mario Vargas Llosa quotes (Peruvian Novelist and Essayist. b.1936)
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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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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“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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