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«All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.»
Author: Carson McCullers
(Writer)
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American literature, loneliest, longing, New American, stamped, The New American, unrest, wanderer, wanderers, writers
«Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.»
Author: Charles T. Sprading
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Right
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antithesis, confuse, definitions, ethical, legal, legal right, synonym, synonyms, writers
«Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance»
Author: Dan Greenburg
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Cats,
Writers
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avoidance, CAT, cats, companions, method, near, perfect, this method, watching, writers, writing
«Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.»
Author: Erica Jong
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Men,
Men and Women
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beware, denounce, denounced, denounces, denouncing, penis, penises, spell, spell out, tiniest, writers
«Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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accurate, efficient, that is to say, writers
«From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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Writers
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bleed, copiously, fall into, groups, observation, review, reviewed, reviewing, secretly, visibly, writers
«Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have enough fortitude and they probably wouldn't succeed anyway, or they fall in love with the glamour of writing as opposed to the writing of writing.»
Author: Peter McWilliams
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fall in, fall in love, fortitude, glamour, involved, opposed, persevere, writers
«All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Childhood
| Keywords:
childhood, gentle, sit in, writers, write about, wrote
«All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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enlist, enlisted, frequently, minded, politically, respected, skip, skipped, skipping, skips, so-called, The Politics, The Pursuit of Happiness, The So, writers
«All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.»
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