"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."

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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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"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."

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

Writing, Expression, Creativity, Voice

"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

Writing, Freedom, Creativity, Expression

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Writer, Heart, Beauty, Expression

"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

Writing, Writer, Duty, Beauty, Anxiety

"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

Writing, Creativity, Persistence, Adaptation

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Writing, Story, Life, Creation, Self

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"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

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"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."

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"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."

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"I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough."

"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."

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

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"A true piece of writing sets you free."

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

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"A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants."

"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying."

"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything."

"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it."

"Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked."

"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."

"Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think."

"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie."