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I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing. ↗

— Judith Rossner

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I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. ↗

— Tim Roth

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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. ↗

— Philip Roth

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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists. ↗

— Philip Roth

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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't. ↗

— Philip Roth

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I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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