"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Writing, Writer, Writers

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"I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself."

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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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Charles Bukowski, American Author

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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

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"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"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

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"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

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"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

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

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"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

Beginning

"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."

Writing

"I am a writer of fragments."

Writing

"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

God

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

Literature

"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."

Literature

"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."

Society

"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

Mind

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

Nation

"When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words."

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