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• "The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published."
  By: John Farrar
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• "Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep."
  By: Cliff Fadiman
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• "Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live."
  By: Lucy Ellman
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• "The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century."
  By: E. L. Doctorow
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• "Writers are always selling somebody out."
  By: Joan Didion
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• "Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging."
  By: Patrick Dennis
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• "The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way."
  By: Richard Harding Davis
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• "Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
  By: Edward Dahlberg
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• "To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
  By: Winston Churchill
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• "The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony."
  By: John Cheever
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• "There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success."
  By: Raymond Chandler
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• "An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought."
  By: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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• "Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."
  By: Mel Brooks
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• "Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent."
  By: James Baldwin
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• "No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
  By: W. H. Auden
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