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Writer Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
- If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives…
- The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his…
- A writer, or at least a poet, is always being asked by people who should know better: “Whom do you write for?” The question is,…
- But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me…
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