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"To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all."
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Lord Byron
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Writers and Writing
"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."
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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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."
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Raymond Chandler
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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."
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John Cheever
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Writers and Writing
"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."
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Winston Churchill
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Writers and Writing
"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."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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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."
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Edward Dahlberg
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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."
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Richard Harding Davis
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"Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging."
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Patrick Dennis
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"Writers are always selling somebody out."
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Joan Didion
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