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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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• "Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators."
  By: Olin Miller
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• "A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in."
  By: Henry Miller
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• "I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains."
  By: James A. Michener
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• "I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail."
  By: James A. Michener
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• "… Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries."
  By: James A. Michener
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• "Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action."
  By: Paul J. Meyer
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• "The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent."
  By: Andre Maurois
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• "The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
  By: Karl Marx
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• "If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
  By: Judith Martin
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• "The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature."
  By: Paul De Man
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• "As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word."
  By: Georg C. Lichtenberg
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• "The cure for writers cramp is writer's block."
  By: Inigo de Leon
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• "It requires more than mere genius to be an author."
  By: Jean De La Bruyere
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• "This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character."
  By: Karl Kraus
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• "Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many."
  By: (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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