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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”

Mel Brooks quotes (American Actor, Writer, Producer and Film Director. b.1926 Brooklyn, New York, USA)

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“Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.”

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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”

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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 quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)

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“But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.”

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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”

William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)

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“What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”

Burton Rascoe quotes

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“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

E. L. Doctorow quotes (American Author and Editor, b.1931)

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“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”

Joseph Heller quotes

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“You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed”

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. quotes (American Writer, b.1922)

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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”

Alfred Kazin quotes

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