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Writers

«When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.»
Author: Alfred Kazin | About: Work, Writers | Keywords: affair, love affair, talking, talks, writer
«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.»
Author: Brian Moore (Novelist, Writer) | About: Writers | Keywords: figures
«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 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.»
«Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.»
«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»
Author: Philip Roth | About: Writers | Keywords: Czech, Czechoslovakia, occurred, Prague, work in
«What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.»
Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | About: Writers
«When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.»
Author: William Morris (Designer, Poet) | About: Heart, Home, Writers | Keywords: home in, subtly
«Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.»
Author: John Steinbeck (Novelist, Writer) | About: Writers | Keywords: clowns, seals
«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»

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