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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted. – Jules Renard, Journal, 1895 April 10th

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I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of [$h¡t]. I try to put the [$h¡t] in the wastebasket. – Ernest Hemingway

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Most editors are failed writers — but so are most writers. – T.S. Eliot

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The expression “to write something down” suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. – William Gass, “Habitations of the Word,” Kenyon Review, October 1984

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