An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

François-René de Chateaubriand

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

E.B. White

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Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

Laurence J. Peter

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann

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Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.

Italo Calvino

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The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

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Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Blaise Pascal

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Writers will happen in the best of families.

Rita Mae Brown

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Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?

Connie Willis

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