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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."
"A writer is like a stick of rock - the words go right through."
"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."
"I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show."
"Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true."
"Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real."
"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
"Scotland consistently produces world-class writers."
Explore more quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo
"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question."
"Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry."
"The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters."
"The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth."
"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
"My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems."
"The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue."
"The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture."
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