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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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E.L. Doctorow
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Every word born of an inner necessity — writing must never be anything else. – Etty Hillesum, quoted in Ten Fun Things to Do Before You Die by Karol Jackowski

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I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. – James Michener

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It is not my sentence that I polish, but my thought. I pause until the drop of light that I need is formed and falls from my pen. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies. – Terri Guillemets

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When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, thats kind of a dead-end road. So I think its a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society. – K. D. Lang

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Most men would kill the truth if truth would kill their religion. – Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays

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