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So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you? ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

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Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I am a writer who came froma sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. ↗

— Eudora Welty

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There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

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Paper is more patient than man. ↗

— Anne Frank

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There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

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What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. ↗

— Ted Hughes

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I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen. ↗

— W.H. Auden

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