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Quote by Terri Guillemets
Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and d

Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear — and devils, too. – Terri Guillemets

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Our passions shape our books; repose writes them in the intervals. – Proust, The Past Recaptured, 1927

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[G]usto thrives on freedom, and freedom in art, as in life, is the result of a discipline imposed by ourselves. Moreover, any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. – Marianne Moore (1887–1972), lecture, 1948

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Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word. – Gail Hamilton

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I have succeeded in arresting some casual wing of thought as it flew, some transient wave of emotion as it subsided… – William Watson, “A Note on Epigram,” 1883

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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. – Wilfrid Sheed

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. – Vladimir Nabokov

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If I dont get food in my mouth, Im still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I dont get arrested for indecent exposure, Im happy. Im worried about keeping my hair, not how its combed. – Michael J. Fox

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. – Douglas Adams

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