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Writing is considered a profession, and I don’t think it is a profession. I think that everyone who does not need to be a writer, who thinks he can do something else, ought to do something else. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don’t think an artist can ever be happy.Georges Simenon.
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You know, you have a beautiful sentence—cut it. Every time I find such a thing in one of my novels it is to be cut.Georges Simenon.
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It is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still do die in your boots.George Orwell in ”How The Poor Die”, an essay on the hospital conditions of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. #SundayMorningReading
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Writers will be judged by what they write.Raymond Carver
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.Susan Sontag
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All my life I have been passionately interested in monomaniacs of any kind, people carried away by a single idea. The more one limits oneself, the closer one is to the infinite.From Stefan Zweig’s novella Chess Story.
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