Quote by Terri Guillemets
Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. - Te

Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. – Terri Guillemets

Other quotes by Terri Guillemets

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance. – Terri Guillemets

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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind. – Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? – Joan Didion

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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. – François-René de Chateaubriand, Le Génie du Christianisme, 1802

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