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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”
William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)
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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
Saul Bellow quotes (Canadian born American Novelist, 1915-2005)
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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
Elia Kazan quotes
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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
Mel Brooks quotes (American Actor, Writer, Producer and Film Director. b.1926 Brooklyn, New York, USA)
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“A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.”
Barbara Holland quotes
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“A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.”
Leo Rosten quotes (Polish born American comic Novelist, He is best known for his humorous works and character Hyman Kaplan. 1908-1997)
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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
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