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“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

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Author:John Updike

“What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.”

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Author:David Hare

“If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.”

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Book:A Short History Of Myth

Source: A Short History Of Myth

“Though not all reading children grow up to be writers, I take it that most creative writers must in their day have been reading children.”

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Book:The Mulberry Tree

Source: The Mulberry Tree

“all creative writers need a certain amount of time when they're creating something where nobody should criticize them at all - at all. Even if the criticism is valid or good, they should just shut up, and let that person create. Because at a certain point you have to make it your own - not the world's, but your own.”

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Author:Gena Rowlands

“No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way of imaginative literature. . . . I'm not sure one can be a creative writer and a politician -- not a "good" politician.”

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Author:Gayl Jones

“A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.”

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Author:Lee Gutkind

“For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.”

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Author:Hilary Mantel

“A creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.”

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Book:Not Under Forty

Source: Not Under Forty

“Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?”

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Author:Sigmund Freud