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«The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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Writers
«The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.»
«The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.»
Author: George V. Higgins
(Writer)
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Writers
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deadlines, enslaved, passes out, swoon, swooned, swooning, swoons, The Vapors, unproductive, vapor, vapors
«The really great writers are people like Emily Bront? who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.»
«The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.»
«The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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Writers
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delinquent, delinquents, guilt-ridden, guilt, practicing, recluse, ridden
«The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.»
Author: Thomas W. Higginson
(Abolitionist, Author, Clergyman, Minister)
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Writers
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phrases
«The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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Literature,
Power,
Writers
| Keywords:
author, engaging, familiar
«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.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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Writers
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appalling, greed, practically
«The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price»
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