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• "What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers."
  By: Logan Pearsall Smith
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• "Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness."
  By: Georges Simenon
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• "I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
  By: Irwin Shaw
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• "Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes."
  By: Blaise Cendrars Sauser
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• "The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession."
  By: George Sand
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• "I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it."
  By: Salman Rushdie
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• "Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."
  By: Mordecai Richler
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• "Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally."
  By: Santha Rama Rau
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• "Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."
  By: Craig Raine
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• "Most authors steal their works, or buy."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
  By: George Orwell
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• "To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind."
  By: Harold Nicolson
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• "I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading."
  By: V. S. Naipaul
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• "Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck."
  By: Iris Murdoch
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• "Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill."
  By: Edmund Morrison
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• "All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me."
  By: Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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