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“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin
“Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
Woody Allen
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde
“A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.”
Richard Bach
“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance”
Dan Greenburg
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons”
Robertson Davies
“Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”
Erica Jong
“Even the best writer has to erase”
Spanish Proverb
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