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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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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. – Author unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson (www.samueljohnson.com/

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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. – Washington Irving

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. РAndr̩ Gide

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

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