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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. - T.S. Eliot

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. – T.S. Eliot

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In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. – T.S. Eliot

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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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Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially. – A. Bronson Alcott

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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all. – Lord Byron

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