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«In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is»
Author: Geoffrey Cottrell
| About:
Writers
| Keywords:
Australia, England, explain, France, In America, writers
«If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.»
Author: John Dos Passos
(Correspondent, Novelist)
| About:
Writing
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contemplation, forced, of their own, special, work force, writers
«If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.»
«I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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altogether, a great deal, context, destroyed, distorted, great deal, incongruous, In Context, juxtaposition, quoted, quotes, quoting, sentence, suffered, writers
«Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.»
Author: Samuel Goldwyn
(Founder, Producer)
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Here I Am, paying, The Big Money, what for, writers
«How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.»
«I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
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artists, heroes, hooked, hooking, hook up, hook up with, literature, The Game, writers
«I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.»
«One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world therefore swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read»
«I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.»
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