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Writers Quotes by Paul Theroux
- Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.
- If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
- Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of…
- I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With…
- Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust…
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- How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. — Amy Adams