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

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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”

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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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“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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“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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“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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“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”

John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)

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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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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”

William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)

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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”

Elia Kazan quotes

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“Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.”

E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)

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