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

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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."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

Jonathan Coe, English Novelist

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"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."

Alberto Moravia, Italian Novelist

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"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Good writers are of necessity rare."

George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher

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

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"So the lover must struggle for words."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

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

Flannery O'Connor, American Author

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"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try."

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"It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."

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"Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time."

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"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."

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"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."

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"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."

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"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."

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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."

"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

"Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

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

"Good writers are of necessity rare."

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

"So the lover must struggle for words."

"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

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"If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try."

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"Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time."

"It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back."

"Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads."

"As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust."

"You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief."

"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint."

"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."