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They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife. Ludwig von Mises
Bret Easton Ellis quote: "Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way."
Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way. Bret Easton Ellis
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements of plutocracy, oligarchy, and mounting theocracy that rule our state? How do we address the self-inflicted catastrophes that devastated our natural environment? So large is our malaise that no single writer can encompass it. We have no Emerson or Whitman among us. An institutionalized counterculture condemns individuality as archaic and depreciates... Harold Bloom
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good. Stephen King
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates
So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them William Gass
When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can’t think of a higher honor for a writer. Roberto Bolano
great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper. good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am deadit means I made it. Charles Bukowski
Thomas Mann quote: "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it..."
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. Thomas Mann
Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open. William S. Burroughs
In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too. Shirley Jackson
Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertiliser, the writer and his wife sit on the fence - with a wonderful sense of "togetherness" - and listen to the magic symphony of the crickets. I can understand that. Around our house, we're pretty busy, and of course we're not the least bit integrated, but nevertheless my husband and I often sit together in the deepening twilight and listen to the sweet, gentle slosh-click, slosh-click of the dishwasher. He smiles and I... Jean Kerr
Andre Gide quote: "If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to..."
If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan. Andre Gide
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories Anne Rice
Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and thirty you pick up what you want, and you read the best, you read all the great works. after that you sit and wait for them to be written. But you know the least know, the least famous writers, they are the better ones. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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