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  Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  Virginia Woolf

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• I think in any writing you’re paying attention to detail.

  Peter Matthiessen

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  I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

  Pearl S. Buck

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• Thought flies and words go on foot.

  Julien Green

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• My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

  Joyce Cary

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  The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

  Tom Clancy

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  Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  Benjamin Franklin

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  Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don’t want to make eye contact while doing it.

  John Green

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  Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

  Jules Renard

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  Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

  Gloria Steinem

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• I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

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• A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

  Virginia Woolf

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• The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

  Thomas Wolfe

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• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

  Ezra Pound

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• An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

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• Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

  Alice Walker

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.

  Paulo Coelho

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• When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.’

  Hilaire Belloc

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• I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

  Phil Hartman

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• If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

  Joyce Carol Oates

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