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• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle."
  By: John Cheever
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• "The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies."
  By: Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958
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• "The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it."
  By: William Gass, Habitations of the Word, Kenyon Review, October 1984
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• "For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle."
  By: John Cheever
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• "I even shower with my pen, in case any ideas drip out of the waterhead."
  By: Graycie Harmon
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• "I keep little notepads all over the place to write down ideas as soon as they strike, but the ones that fill up the quickest are always the ones at my nightstand."
  By: Emily Logan Decens
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• "Without a pen I feel naked, but it's writing that is my exhibitionism."
  By: Carrie Latet
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• "Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur."
  By: Carrie Latet
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• "Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too."
  By: Graycie Harmon
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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."
  By: Colette, Casual Chance, 1964
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• "The reason why many people are so fond of using superlatives, is, they are so positive that the poor positive is not half positive enough for them."
  By: Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
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• "The artist's only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one.... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."
  By: Faulkner, quoted in M. Cowley, Writers at Work, 1958
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• "If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it - I might be writing in my dreams."
  By: Danzae Pace
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• "It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words, as any good environmentally conscious writer would do."
  By: Uniek Swain
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• "Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks."
  By: Peter S. Prescott
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