One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
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In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax.Alfred Kazin
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A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.
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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
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