"Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain."

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"Payment and reserved copyright are at bottom the ruin of literature. Only he who writes entirely for the sake of what he has to say writes anything worth writing. It is as if there were a curse on money: every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain."

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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."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Writing, Creativity, Identity, Profession

"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

Chuck Klosterman, American Critic

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"A true piece of writing sets you free."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Writing, Freedom, Creativity, Expression

"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Writer, Heart, Beauty, Expression

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Writer, Duty, Beauty, Anxiety

"The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book ~ if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book."

E.A. Bucchianeri, American Author

Writing, Creativity, Persistence, Adaptation

"You are the writer of your life story, so don't forget to write the best one."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Story, Life, Creation, Self

"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."

Doris Lessing, English Writer

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"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."

Stephen King, American Author

Writing, Truth, Honesty, Society

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."

Dale Carnegie, American Writer

Writing, Purpose, Detail, Language

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"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."

Time

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

Life

"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life.preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation."

Legacy

"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."

Reality

"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause."

Communication

"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner, nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."

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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."

"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

"A true piece of writing sets you free."

"A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents."

"A writer's duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can."

"You are the writer of your life story, so don't forget to write the best one."

"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."

"If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered."

"Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience."

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"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

"I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."

"Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last."

"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause."

"A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner, nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people."