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Some writers
confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at,
with originality, which they should never bother about.
-- W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
A professional
writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
-- Richard Bach
1936-, American Author
A word is a
bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while
writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives
the right to dream.
-- Gaston Bachelard
1884-1962, French Scientist,
Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Writers like
teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
-- Walter Bagehot
1826-1877, British Economist,
Critic
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Who wants to
become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to
everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the
streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build
up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the
oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make
something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's
a cactus.
-- Enid Bagnold
1889-1981, British Novelist,
Playwright
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.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author
The
responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of
the people who produced him.
-- James Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author
To endow the
writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he
likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even
more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the
products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life
bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and
making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of
his condition which the writer emphasizes by such
confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly
the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at
the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal
conscience.
-- Roland Barthes
1915-1980, French Semiologist
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