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


Isaac Bashevis Singer


#good #good writer #mankind #redeemer #scholar

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


#his #man #originality #seen #sentences

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.


Isaac Bashevis Singer


#best #best friend #friend #waste #writer

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


Isaac Bashevis Singer


#children #only #parents #serious #their

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


#boy #call #called #grown #i

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


#bother #find #go #i #improve

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


Peter Singer


#containing #dreamed #ever #everything #library

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


Curtis Sittenfeld


#both #complicated #happens #i #i write

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


#biology #boarding #boarding school #enough #experience

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


#creating #fiction #hours #how #hundreds






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