“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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“I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring comes from within.”-Eudora Welty
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“I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves-you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.”-Ray Bradbury
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“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”-Margaret Fuller
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“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.”-Eleanor Roosevelt
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