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

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Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur. – Terri Guillemets

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When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man. РBlaise Pascal, Pens̩es, 1670

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