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

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

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Someone said, “The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know. – T.S. Eliot

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Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words. – Norman Mailer, 1998

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Let’s hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks. – Peter S. Prescott

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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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He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. – John Ray

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