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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ↗

— Voltaire

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History should be written as philosophy. ↗

— Voltaire

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I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything. ↗

— Larry Wachowski

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One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen, as if you poured a large jug of champagne over a hairpin. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I wish there was some way to get the law changed. They can write anything about you after you're deceased and there's nothing you can do about it. ↗

— Robert Wagner

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