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• Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. — Gore Vidal
• A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love.… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from… — Ernest Hemingway
• I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr
• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction… — Dana Spiotta
• At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They… — Walter Kirn
• It's what every writer needs: a daybed. — Vince Flynn
• I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor
• The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he… — Manuel Puig
• If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as… — Octavia Butler
• To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell
• A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles

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