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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The waste basket is the writer's best friend. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some way you can think of to improve it. Otherwise, don't bother writing a book; go and find a tropical island and lie in the sun. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. ↗

— Peter Singer

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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? ↗

— Arthur Smith

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