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Writers Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.
- A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
- In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
- It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
- A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
- In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit…
- Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
- An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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