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«If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.»
Author: Don Delillo
(Novelist)
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central, ghoul, ghouls, If I were a, liberating, literature, lovely, margins, novel, outside, perception, the novel, work in, writer
«Every writer I know has trouble writing.»
«I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.»
Author: Loretta Lynn
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Book of Job, continue, cornbread, doctor, dry, established, jobs, or else, singer, stale, stales, staling, writer
«I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Books,
Writing
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«In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.»
Author: Richard Eder
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Books,
Writing
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«Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.»
«In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.»
Author: Pearl S. Buck
| About:
Writing
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«Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.»
«It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
as if by magic, familiar, familiar with, function, magic, perception, renew, scene, shakes, writer
«If you would be a reader, read; if a writer,write»
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