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Writing is the
hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception
of wrestling alligators.
-- Olin Miller
Let those who
would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
-- John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet
I always write
a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
-- Molière
1622-1673, French Playwright
All the world
knows me in my book, and may book in me.
-- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French
Philosopher, Essayist
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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.
-- Edmund Morrison
Of course I'm
a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories
like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer
aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the
thing we call ''literature'' is more pluralistic now, just
as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We
ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the
Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph
Bunche.
-- Toni Morrison
1931-, African-American
Novelist
The shelf life
of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk
and the yogurt.
-- John Mortimer
1923-, British Barrister,
Novelist
Writing is
like getting married. One should never commit oneself until
one is amazed at one's luck.
-- Iris Murdoch
1919-, British Novelist,
Philosopher
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