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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst
The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
Ricky Martin
As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.
Neil Gaiman
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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Margaret Anderson 
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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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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost
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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.
Bob Schieffer
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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
Illeana Douglas
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
Laurence Housman
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The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
Naguib Mahfouz
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