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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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“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds”

Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

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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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“The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none”

François R. Chateaubriand quotes (French author and diplomat, 1768-1848)

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“A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.”

Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

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“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

Karl Marx quotes (German political Philosopher and revolutionary, 1818-1883)

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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 good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.”

Lawrence Clark Powell quotes (American Librarian, Writer and Critic, 1906-2001)

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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.”

Don Delillo quotes (American Novelist born in New York City, b.1926)

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“Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.”

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“Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before”

John Kenneth Galbraith quotes

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