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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."

"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."

"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."

"Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
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"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."

"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

"When something is finished, it cannot be possessed. Nothing can be possessed but the struggle."
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