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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"Writers are too neurotic to ever be happy."
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"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."
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"Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
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"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."
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"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
Art
"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
God
"If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity! returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka. If someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say: 'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!"
Writing
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths."
Psychology
"And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive."
Philosophy
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
Happiness
"We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor."
Reflection
"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
Difference
"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
Direction
"True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know."
Philosophy
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