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Letter "W" » Writers
«An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
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Generations,
Writers,
Writing
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insists
«An author departs, he does not die»
«As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.»
«After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style»
«Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.»
Author: Leon Edel
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Necessity,
Writers
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biographer, biographers, literary, obsessed, of necessity, pilgrim, traveler
«Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the»
«Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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Writers
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asking, critics, dogs, feels, lamp, our critics, post, posted, posting, writer
«An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations»
«After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
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Reading,
Writers
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journal, journals, Journal of, letter, receiving, The Journal
«Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.»
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