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Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer. ↗

— Stephen King

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Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

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Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

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I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. ↗

— Tom Bissell

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A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and we find our common humanity doing this. So the book doesn't only belong to the writer, it belongs to the reader as well, and then together you make it what it is. ↗

— Paul Auster

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I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know. ↗

— Ann M. Martin

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