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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. ↗

— Patrick White

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Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes. ↗

— Tony Williams

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Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy. ↗

— Chely Wright

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. ↗

— George Ade

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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. ↗

— Isabel Allende

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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. ↗

— Al Alvarez

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Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. ↗

— Al Alvarez

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There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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