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“Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.”
Wolcott Gibbs quotes (American Writer, 1902-1958)
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“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
Arthur Helps quotes (English Historian and Novelist, 1813-1875)
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“What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.”
Salman Rushdie quotes (Indian born British Writer, b.1947)
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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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“The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.”
Marcel Achard quotes (French Playwright, 1899-1974)
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“The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.”
James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
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“I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.”
John Mortimer quotes
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“They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”
John O'Hara quotes
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“The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.”
James A. Michener quotes (U.S. novelist and short-story writer, 1907?-1997)
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“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”
John Updike quotes (American writer, b.1932)
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“Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.”
Jean Cocteau quotes (French Poet, Novelist, Actor, Film Director and Painter, 1889-1963)
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