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Famous Writers Quotes

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold
Writing, Secret, Famous Writers
Quoted in G.W. E. Russell, Collections and Recollections (1898)

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Ken Kesey
Writing, Famous Writers, Enjoyed

Read, read read. Read everything.

William Faulkner
Writing, Famous Writers, Writers Reading

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

J. K. Rowling
Would Be, Fame, Famous Writers
"'Harry is a lot, lot, lot angrier in this book'". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 20, 2003.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

Robert Morgan
Technique, Famous Writers, Make Sense

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