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> [“Do the books that writers don't write matter? It's easy to forget them, to assume that the apocryphal bibliography must contain nothing but bad ideas, justly abandoned projects, embarrassing first thoughts. It needn't be so: first thoughts are often best,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/do-the-books-that-writers-don-t-write-matter-it-s-easy-to-forget-them/)

[Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/)

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> [“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-barnes/the-imagination-doesn-t-crop-annually-like-a-reliable-fruit-tree-the/)

[Julian Barnes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-barnes/)

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