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"? Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries."
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James A. Michener
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"I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail."
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"I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
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James A. Michener
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"A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in."
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Henry Miller
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"Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."
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Olin Miller
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"All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me."
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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"Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill."
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Edmund Morrison
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"The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt."
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John Mortimer
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"Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
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Iris Murdoch
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"I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
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V. S. Naipaul
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