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"A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre."
— Samuel Johnson
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“I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language”
― Annie Proulx
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"A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not."
— Roald Dahl
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"You have to become a different person to write the next book. The person you are already wrote the last book."
— Jonathan Franzen
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"“What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.”
— Marian Keyes
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“I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”
— Steve Martin
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"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
— Jack Kerouac
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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
— Herman Melville
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"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
— Ernest Hemingway