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For your born
writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has
come upon the right word.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen
1897-1973, American Author
Writers seldom
choose as friends those self-contained characters who are
never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes,
and always count their change when it is handed to them.
-- Catherine Drinker Bowen
1897-1973, American Author
Every writing
career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for
self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon,
a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than
his soul.
-- Joseph Brodsky
1940-, Russian-born American
Poet, Critic
But this I
know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns
something of which he is not always master -- something that
at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result
be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve
praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you,
who almost as little deserve blame.
-- Charlotte Bronte
1816-1855, British Novelist
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Great writers
are the saints for the godless.
-- Anita Brookner
1938-, British Novelist, Art
Historian
Every human
being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin.
The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their
separate names, identities, personalities and have them
relate to other characters living with him.
-- Mel Brooks
1926-, American Actor,
Director
The aim, if
reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare,
leave the rest to fate!
-- Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet
Making a book
is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native
wit to be an author.
-- Jean De La Bruyère
1645-1696, French Classical
Writer
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