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Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. – John Updike

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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. – John Updike

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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Sanity
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Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike

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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone. – Donna Tartt

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Mans ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate. – Paul Tillich

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The writer is all alone. – V. S. Naipaul

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