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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. – John Cheever

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty. – John Cheever

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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. – John Cheever

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Perfection
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There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. – Miguel de Cervantes

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

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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. – Terri Guillemets

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