Quote #81683

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he’s gone through, it means he was born for literature.

Edouard Bourdet

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Authorship is exhibitionism, and readers a species of voyeur.

They'll find ink in my veins and blood on my typewriter keys.

Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head.

The man who doesn’t read hasn’t any advantage over the man who can’t read.