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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement. ↗

— Horace

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A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. ↗

— Trey Anastasio

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You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to what that accomplishes. ↗

— John Bolton

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I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel. ↗

— Edie Brickell

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