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Quote by Charles Peguy
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. – Charles Peguy

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Drink and be filled up. – Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000

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

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. – George Orwell, “Why I Write,” 1947 (Thanks, Jennifer)

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