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Writing Quotes by Philip Larkin
- Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
- Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
- I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you…
- I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else,
- To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
- I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your…
- Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
- There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
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