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To note an
artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter
can write equally well about everything that is presented to
his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with
what lies within the range and character of his deepest
sympathies.
-- Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author
Writing ought
either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a
market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as
making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art,
which is always a search for something for which there is no
market demand, something new and untried, where the values
are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized
values.
-- Willa Cather
1876-1947, American Author
An author is
often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the
thought to expression than like the reader from the
expression to the thought.
-- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De
Chamfort
1741-1794, French Writer,
Journalist, Playwright
Any man who
can write a page of living prose adds something to our life,
and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent
someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny
art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
-- Raymond Chandler
1888-1959, American Author
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