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title: "7 Books Writers Quotes by 7 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Books Writers quotes by 7 authors. Discover the best Books Writers sayings and thoughts."
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> [It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/norton-juster/it-was-really-written-as-most-i-think-books-are-by-writers-for/)

[Norton Juster](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/norton-juster/)

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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…](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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> [Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-lieb/fahrenheit-451-is-one-of-those-books-that-is-about-how-amazing-books/)

[Josh Lieb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-lieb/)

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> [The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ian-black/the-illustrators-work-so-much-harder-on-the-books-than-the-writers-do/)

[Michael Ian Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ian-black/)

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> [Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-rollins/not-that-the-writers-weren-t-good-i-believe-in-those-books-and-those/)

[Henry Rollins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-rollins/)

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> [I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/i-know-that-some-books-and-some-writers-you-can-pretty-much-draw-a/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/what-makes-books-and-with-them-writers-so-dangerous-that-church-and/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

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