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Writer Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader…
- The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
- Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without…
- These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
- To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each…
- I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the…
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