By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness.
– Pablo Neruda
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ~E.L. Doctorow
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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.
– Gustave Flaubert
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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.
Paul Valery
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A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ~John K. Hutchens
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Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear – and devils, too. ~Terri Guillemets
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. ~John Cheever
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There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world. – John Fowles
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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else. – Gloria Steinem
