"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

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"So the lover must struggle for words."

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Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Dramatist

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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

"So the lover must struggle for words."

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"I am the worlds laziest writer."

"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."

"I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is."

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"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."

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