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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

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"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

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"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

Chloe Thurlow, British Novelist

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"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."

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"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."

Stephen Leacock, Canadian Economist

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"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen."

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"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."

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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

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"People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions."

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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

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"Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience."

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"Writing. Is it a way to be remembered,or a need to become immortal?"

"The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory."

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets."

"Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor."

"My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward."

"Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult."

"I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling."

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

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"Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen."

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions."

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."

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