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QUOTES ABOUT WRITING

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. -Peter De Vries

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. -Marcel Proust

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. -Elizabeth Drew

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. -Joubert

The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and, as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poets pen turns them to shapes, and gives airy nothing a local habitation and a name.- Shakespeare

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. -Mark Twain

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. -Oscar Wilde

It's more fun writing bad books than reading good ones. -Werner Lansburgh

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a speaking picture.- Simonides

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.- Joubert

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