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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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• "As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."
  By: ^ Virginia Woolf
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• "To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about."
  By: ^ Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967
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• "Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes."
  By: ^ Theodore Dreiser, 1900
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• "Then he said to Scheherazade: Sister, for the sake of Allah, tell us a story that will help pass the night."
  By: ^ The Arabian Nights
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• "The best style is the style you don't notice."
  By: ^ Somerset Maugham
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• "Fool! said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write."
  By: ^ Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella
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• "It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."
  By: ^ Sinclair Lewis
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• "Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn't wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say."
  By: ^ Sharon O'Brien
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• "You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world."
  By: ^ Sarah Orne Jewett in Sarah Orne Jewett by Sliverthorne
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• "I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog."
  By: ^ Sandra Cisneros
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• "Samuel McChord Crothers, Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else,"
  By: ^ Samuel McChord Crothers
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