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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. - E.L. Doc

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

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

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Being an author is being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. – Terri Guillemets

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I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. – Anton Chekhov

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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. – W. Somerset Maugham, Summing Up, 1938

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