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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too b

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. РAndr̩ Gide, Journals, 1894

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The ablest writer is only a gardener first, and then a cook: his tasks are, carefully to select and cultivate his strongest and most nutritive thoughts; and when they are ripe, to dress them, wholesomely, and yet so that they may have a relish. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. – E.L. Doctorow

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. – E.L. Doctorow

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