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Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation. – Brooks Atkinson

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The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking – and looking. – Brooks Atkinson

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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do. – Aristotle

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The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. – Nelson Algren

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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. – Martin Amis

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A professional writer is an amateur who didnt quit. – Richard Bach

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