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There's a great myth about cartoonists, writers and people that are on TV. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

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I'm comfortable having a specific audience to write to.I like the idea that my audience doesn't see what I do as controversial. ↗

— Dave Sim

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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. ↗

— Peter Singer

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I liked the idea of being a writer and letting somebody else do the graft. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

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I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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