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Writer Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
- The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs…
- The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
- Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but nothing will efface…
- A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.
- A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.
- A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees. No one can tell him about that. No one can control…
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
- If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer…
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