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Author Quotes

"The muse visits during the writing."

"A writer should be as objective as a chemist."

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

"In order to write about life first you must live it"

"The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly."

"I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book."

"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book"

"The writer's life is a life of solitary work"

"I'm a storyteller. That's all I've ever tried to be."

"I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer"

"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them."

"A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it."

"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until it’s done. It’s that easy, and that hard."

"Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same way, in a different tree."

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