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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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. – André Gide

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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. – Sholem Asch

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I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg

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I would always be that same maddening, monstrous mixture of pedantry, egoism, politeness, selfishness, kindliness, sneakiness, larkiness, sociability, loneliness, ambition, ordered calm and hidden intensity. I would cover my life with words. I would spray the whole bloody world with words. – Stephen Fry (b.1957), Moab is my Washpot #INFJ

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