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Writers are always selling somebody out. ↗

— Joan Didion

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The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. ↗

— Carl Van Doren

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I got to write most of everything I said. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow. ↗

— Martin Gore

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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music. ↗

— P. J. Harvey

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An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers. ↗

— Erica Jong

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