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Thomas Bernhard

"Very often we write down a sentence

Writers don't write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that...

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

"Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street;...

Yasunari Kawabata

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel....

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Books are for nothing but to inspire

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak...

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone,...

Tennessee Williams

I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first...

Jonathan Franzen

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work...

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the...

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not...

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a...

I write to find out what I'm talking about.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up,...

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess....

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of...

Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them,...

The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until...

Terry Pratchett

I read anything that's going to be interesting. But you don't know what it is...

"The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is...

William Faulkner

"Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see...

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The pen is mightier than the sword!

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