Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

Lillian Hellman
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  1. Great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it. - Charles Bukowski

  2. Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. - George R.r. Martin

  3. Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her... - Anne Lamott

  4. If you wish to be a writer, write. - Epictetus

  5. A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. - Anonymous

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  1. It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

  2. I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

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  4. I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

  5. Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch...

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