I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking, which is only fun for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

Hunter S. Thompson

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I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Eudora Welty

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When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Marguerite Duras

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

Marcel Proust

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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.

Hunter S. Thompson

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There's a difference between writing for a living and writing for
life. If you write for a living, you make enormous compromises....
If you write for life, you'll work hard; you'll do what's honest,
not what pays

Toni Morrison

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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Junot Díaz

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Just me, my music, and the voices in my head.

Christie Silvers

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I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to
become a professional writer. I say to you, "If you really want to hurt your
parents, and you don't have the nerve to be a homosexual, the least you can
do is go into the arts. But do not use semicolons. They are transvestite
hermaphrodites, standing for absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've
been to college.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?

Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

Ernest Hemingway

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