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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."
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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
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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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"Good writers are of necessity rare."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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"Sean's a great, great writer."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind."
Men
"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person."
Love
"The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind."
Success
"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
People
"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right."
People
"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
Day
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
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