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«When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.»
«When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.»
«Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
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Writers
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change hands, characters, contained, count, handed, hand made, ill, in trouble, seldom, self-contained, unhappy, writers
«Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
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Writers
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compose, composition, hazard, sit down, stake
«Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.»
«When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters»
«What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.»
«When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.»
«Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.»
«While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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estimate, estimates, estimating, rate
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