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 What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

 What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
  Salman Rushdie

 When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
  Alfred Kazin

 When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters
  Philip Roth

 When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
  Brian Moore

 While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best
  Samuel Johnson

 Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
  John Steinbeck

 Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
  E. L. Doctorow

 Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
  John Updike

 Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

 Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
  Edna Ferber

 Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
  Edna Ferber

 You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences
  Anatole France

 You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences
  Anatole France

 You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed
  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


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