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 A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

 A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

 A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

 A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.
  Archibald MacLeish

 A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress." They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.

 A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy
  E. B. White

 A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

 A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

 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 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 writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
  Leo Rosten

 A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.
  Ernest Hemingway

 Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you
need at least four of them, and they need to be rotated every 5,000 miles.
  Billy Wilder

 An author departs, he does not die

 An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations
  Charles de Montesquieu


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