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Nothing
written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been
written against the market.
-- Ezra Pound
1885-1972, American Poet,
Critic
I perceived
that to express those impressions, to write that essential
book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not,
in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it
exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty
and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
-- Marcel Proust
1871-1922, French Novelist
Great writers
arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful,
impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
-- Craig Raine
What no wife
of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working
when he's staring out of the window.
-- Burton Rascoe
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Really, in the
end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person
that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of
your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless
interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody
can help you deliberately-many people will help you
unintentionally.
-- Santha Rama Rau
Make em laugh;
make em cry; make em wait.
-- Charles Reade
1814-1884, British Novelist,
Dramatist
To write
something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
-- Anne Rice
1941-, American Author,
''Interview with the Vampire''
Fundamentally,
all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about
the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration
that it creates.
-- Mordecai Richler
1931-, Canadian Writer
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