"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."

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"The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me."

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"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Act, Heaven

"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

William Blake, English Poet

Act, Evening, Night, Sleep

"It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego."

bell hooks, American Critic

Act, Ego, Past, Self

"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Act, Books, Creation

"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Act, Beginning, Violence

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

Act, Difference, Will

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

Act, Mind, Reflection, Thinking

"Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Act, Talk

"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."

John Edward Redmond, Irish Politician

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry."

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"One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read."

Opportunity

"I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well."

Impression

"The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time."

Time

"I have never sought the reason why I write."

Reason

"Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds."

Literature

"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."

World

"All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is."

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"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."

Work

"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

Suspicion