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Writers
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
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«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.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
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«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»
«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.»
«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»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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