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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#book #challenging #different #each #own

I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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I'm just writing a story that I want to read. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#around #back #books #fact #far

It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #death

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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