All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.
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Bad writers, and especially scientific, political, and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure.
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.