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By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness. - Pablo Neruda

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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.  ~E.L. Doctorow

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I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within. - Gustave Flaubert

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Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist. Paul Valery

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A writer and nothing else:  a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.  ~John K. Hutchens

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Being an author is having angels whisper in your ear - and devils, too.  ~Terri Guillemets

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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle.  ~John Cheever

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There are many reasons why novelists write – but they all have one thing in common: a need to create an alternative world. - John Fowles

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Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else. - Gloria Steinem

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The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.  ~Norbet Platt