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Writing Quotes by Walker Percy
- A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
- But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write…
- I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
- I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of…
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold