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He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it! ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. ↗

— George Saunders

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...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Literature is painting, architecture, and music. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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...writing is not a performance but a generosity. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality. ↗

— John Gardner

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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