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Writers Quotes by Michael Cunningham
- As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
- At the risk, then, of being shunned by some of my gloomier peers, I venture to tell you that writers work like demons, suffer greatly,…
- Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is…
- Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition…
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- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu
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- You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must… — Nhat Hanh
- Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz… — David Foster Wallace
- He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it… — William Faulkner