"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer."

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"The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our live trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods is to tell a story, begging the listener to say, and to feel, "Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought." To finish is sadness to a writer, a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits."

Nora Roberts, American Author

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"If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

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"Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing."

Nora Roberts, American Author

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"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book."

Nora Roberts, American Author

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"Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

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"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."

John Updike, American Novelist

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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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"My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious."

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"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write."

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"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."

Force

"You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought."

Thought

"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."

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"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."

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"Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy."

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"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."

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"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."

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"Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor."

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