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I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.

Michael Connelly

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When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

Jonathan Coe

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After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

Patricia Clarkson

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