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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."
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W. H. Auden
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"Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders."
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Walter Bagehot
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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."
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James Baldwin
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Writers and Writing
"The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps."
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Robert Benchley
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Writers and Writing
"Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion."
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Arnold Bennett
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"To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence."
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Maurice Blanchot
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"Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them."
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
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"Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul."
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Joseph Brodsky
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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."
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Mel Brooks
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"Writers are the main landmarks of the past."
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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