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“The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.”
James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)
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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”
William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)
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“A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.”
Barbara Holland quotes
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“You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. quotes (American Writer, b.1922)
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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
Elia Kazan quotes
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller quotes
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“If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.”
Joyce Carol Oates quotes (American Author twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature, b.1938)
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
Salman Rushdie quotes (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)
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