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    The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning

by Peter De Vries Found in: Writers Quotes,
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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, read more

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a read more

A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

by Barbara Holland Found in: Writers Quotes,
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

by T. S. Eliot Found in: Writers Quotes,
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Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

by Aldous Huxley Found in: Writers Quotes,
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Writers Quotes,
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A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the read more

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

by P. L. Travers Found in: Writers Quotes,
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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.

by E. M. Forster Found in: Writers Quotes,
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

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