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“The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.”

Cyril Connolly quotes (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)

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“An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations”

Charles de Montesquieu quotes (French Politician and Philosopher, 1689-1755)

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“The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.”

Boris Pasternak quotes (Russian poet, 1890-1960)

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“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”

Sidonie Gabrielle quotes

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“She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had.”

Dudley Clendinen quotes

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“Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”

Fannie Hurst quotes (American Writer. 1889-1968)

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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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“Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.”

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

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“If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.”

Lord Byron quotes (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

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“The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.”

Maria Lenhart quotes

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“Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.”

Susan Sontag quotes (American Writer, Activist and Critic, 1933-2004)

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