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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes."

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

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."

"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."

"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about."

"Anna Petrovna: I am beginning to think, doctor, that fate has cheated me. The majority of people, who maybe are no better than I am, are happy and pay nothing for that happiness. I have paid for everything, absolutely everything! And how dearly! Why have I paid such terrible interest?"

"The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to."

"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable."
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