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Flannery O Connor : I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. # Excellence

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Elwyn Brooks White : " A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time. " # Excellence

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Raymond Chandler : " That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good. " # Excellence

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James Thurber : " Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style? and avoid How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece? " # Excellence

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Ezra Pound : " No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clich?, not from real life. " # Excellence

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Raymond Chandler : " The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off. " # Excellence

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Jean Cocteau : " What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model. With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies. " # Excellence

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Thomas Berger : " Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. " # Excellence

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Epictetus : " If you wish to be a writer; write! " # Excellence

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Ernest Hemingway : " When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature. " # Excellence

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Flannery O Connor : " It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. " # Excellence

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Anthony Burgess : " If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not. " # Excellence

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Flannery O Connor: " Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." # Writers and Writing # Opinions # Love

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Flannery O Connor: " I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best." # Excellence

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Flannery O Connor: " It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have." # Fiction # Writers and Writing # Poverty and The Poor

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Flannery O Connor: " There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end." # Literature # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing

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Flannery O Connor: " Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers." # Manners # Writers and Writing # Mind

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