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> [ There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” \[narrator\]It was my first inkling… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/f-scott-fitzgerald/there-s-a-writer-for-you-he-said-knows-everything-and-at-the-same/)

[F. Scott Fitzgerald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/)

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> [Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paolo-bacigalupi/take-three-different-thai-writers-and-ask-them-to-extrapolate-their/)

[Paolo Bacigalupi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paolo-bacigalupi/)

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> [The requests for blurbs seem to come in waves. I'm not sure what precipitates them. I think it must be excruciating for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miriam-toews/the-requests-for-blurbs-seem-to-come-in-waves-i-m-not-sure-what/)

[Miriam Toews](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miriam-toews/)

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> [I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-roth/i-don-t-ask-writers-about-their-work-habits-i-really-don-t-care-joyce/)

[Philip Roth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-roth/)

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> [Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-gaitskill/whenever-young-writers-ask-me-for-advice-i-always-say-you-have-to-be/)

[Mary Gaitskill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-gaitskill/)

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> [I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brahmanandam/i-do-whatever-the-directors-and-writers-ask-me-to-do/)

[Brahmanandam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brahmanandam/)

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> [I am always chilled and astonished by the would-be writers who ask me for advice and admit, quite blithely, that they "don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-king/i-am-always-chilled-and-astonished-by-the-would-be-writers-who-ask-me/)

[Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-king/)

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