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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
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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." »Sandra Cisneros
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"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block." »Inigo DeLeon
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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." »Edward Albee
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"Great writing is a submission to a creative force that seems to use the writer as an instrument. The writer finds that the words stream out, almost as if someone else were producing them. Writing becomes a process of discovery." »S. O'Brien
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"Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant." »Edna Ferber
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"A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others." »Leo C. Rosten
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"You are the writer of your own life." »Rajnesh Sharma
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"The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." »Leo Rosten
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"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer." »E. B. White
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"A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann
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"The writer is the engineer of the human soul." »Joseph Stalin, Brainy Quote
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"There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one." »James T. Farrell
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"A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." »Thomas Mann
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"If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away." »Victor Hugo
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"When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism but when you take it from many writers, it's research." »Wilson Mizner
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"The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him." »Rachel Carson
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"There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"writer is a monkey, jumping from one tree to another in the jungle of words." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare." »George Eliot
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"Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed." »Leo C. Rosten
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"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." »Dean Gooderham Acheson
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"As a song-writer, I write from the heart, soul and mind, not from lies." »Alishia May
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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs." »Christopher Hampton
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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs." »John Osborne
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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs." »Christopher Hampton
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"The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything." »John Irving
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"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment." »Josh Billings
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