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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. - Walter Bagehot They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. - Robert Burton A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. - William Faulkner A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. - Jacques Anatole I. France (Jacques Anatole Thibault) If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so. - Andre Gide A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. - Karl Kraus Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. - Sinclair Lewis The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price. - Walter Lippmann Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. - Norman Mailer A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann The moral I draw is that the writer should seek his reward in the pleasure of his work and in release from the burden of his thought; and, indifferent to aught else, care nothing for praise or censure, failure or success. - William Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (ch. II) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. - Marcel Proust If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell The writer's duty is to keep on writing. - William Styron Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write. - Robert Penn Warren Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. - William Wordsworth
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