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" Quotes and Sayings About writers

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

Truest Language Process Living element
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Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Advice Young writers Learn To trust
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Is impossible Discourage Real writers
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I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

I Regrets Reasons Create things
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The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

Only Impeccable Writers Never
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There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on public affairs and constitutions.

Nation's Politics Poetry Writers
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Good writers Language Efficient Clear
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If only writers everywhere could unionize so it would be impossible to do festivals, conferences and stupid panels without paying writers properly

Writers everywhere Could unionize Be impossible Do festivals
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

Writer Education School Inspired
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

Writers Listening Voices Create
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Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Writers Dreamers Talk
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As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.

Writers Excercise Mental Daily
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Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

Art Writers Painters Expression
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Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Writers Below Clowns Trained seals
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I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Teachers Speak Voices Writers
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Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.

Language Writers Express
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Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

Writers Touch Reality
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For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

Advantage Writer Invisible Power
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Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

Writers Care Sensibility Poems
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Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers

Live Life People Read
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Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

Web Writers Last minute Distraction
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