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«Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.»
«For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.»
«For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.»
«Every writer I know has trouble writing.»
«Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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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.»
Author: Mel Brooks
(Actor, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
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characters, hundreds, identities, names, personalities, relate, separate, skin
«Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.»
Author: Rod Sterling
(Host, Producer, Writer)
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auditorium, frustrated, lines, recited, recites, reciting, skull, skulls, The Skull
«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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bleed, copiously, fall into, groups, observation, review, reviewed, reviewing, secretly, visibly, writers
«Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before»
«Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished»
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