

“Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.”
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“Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.”
― A Critic's Notebook
― A Critic's Notebook
“Quick, man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!”
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“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover whether one was really a writer or just a victim of a literary home environment.”
― The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma
― The Ebony Tower. Eliduc. The Enigma

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