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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. ↗

— Richard Price

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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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