“Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it…Success is shy-it won’t come out while you’re watching.”-Tennessee Williams
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“Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”-James Baldwin
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“Writing always means hiding something in such a way that it then is discovered.”-Italo Calvino
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“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”-William Butler Yeats
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“I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face.”-Michel Foucault
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“One does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Perhaps there is another kind of writing, I only know this one: in the night, when fear does not let me sleep.”-Franz Kafka
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“A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.”-Edgar Allan Poe
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“It seems to me it cannot be wrong to read good poetry an entire morning if you happen to be particularly receptive in that respect, because when you are poetically receptive you see so much of life behind the words.”-Wanda Gág
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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”-Saul Bellow
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