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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript. ↗

— Richard Steele

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Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. ↗

— Pamela Stephenson

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I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. ↗

— C. S. Forester

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Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines. ↗

— Gloria Trevi

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