#writer

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ↗

— Neil Cross

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I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

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The writer is the engineer of the human soul. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

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I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#doing #even #hold #illusion #important

I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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