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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. ↗

— Philip Roth

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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. ↗

— Karl Rove

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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. ↗

— Karl Rove

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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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