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«His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.»
Author: Anatole Broyard
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Writers
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forgot, for a while, His father, Paris, terrace, terraces
«Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes»
«In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is»
Author: Geoffrey Cottrell
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Writers
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Australia, England, explain, France, In America, writers
«If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.»
Author: Irvin S. Cobb
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Writers
«If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.»
«If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.»
«In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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Reading,
Writers
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double standard, in relation to, readers, relation to, The Double, unfaithful
«If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.»
«He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Character,
Confidence,
Courage,
Life,
Poets,
Risk,
Writers
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After life, come to life, dare, Get A Life, lives, not, On Writing, others, poetry, realise, that, they, The Others, This Is Your Life, To be written, write, write of, write out
«If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies»
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