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Quote by Gustave Flaubert
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present ev

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. – Anaïs Nin

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Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. – Vladimir Nabakov

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An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. – Adlai Stevenson, quoted in Ronald D. Fuchs, You Said a Mouthful

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