#writer

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

— J. B. Priestley

#aware #existence #greatest #greatest writers #mystery

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

— Manuel Puig

#academic #been #haven #i #kind

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#countries #give #hope #instability #intellectuals

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Writers are not meant for action. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#meant #writers

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#exhausts #his #imitates #men #novels

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. ↗

— Harold Ramis

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