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“We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.”

The French Lieutenant’s Woman—JOHN FOWLES

“…as usual when a pretty girl looked at him, he was contemplating a life-long relationship.”

Single and Single—JOHN LE CARRÉ

“All writers suffer from an insatiable need to be loved.”

—LES AMOUREUSES

“You read or hear every now and then of a romance starting up between middle-aged or even elderly people who knew each other years earlier. People who throw over long-established, comfortable marriages or sensible lives for the chance to love again in a particular way—a way that connects them with who they used to be, with how it felt to be that person. And now…I could understand the potency of that connection. The self-intoxication you pass off to yourself as intoxication with someone else.

While I Was Gone—SUE MILLER

“Every writer carries a canker in his heart, a devouring monster, like the tapeworm in the stomach, which destroys all feeling as it arises in him.”

Temptation In Paris—HONORÉ DE BALZAC

“I don’t know what it is about poets that draws women to them in this way. But everybody knows that a poet has only to sit and saw the air with his hands and recite verses in a deep stupid voice, and all the women are crazy over him. Men despise him and would kick him off the verandah if they dared, but the women simply rave over him.”

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town—STEPHEN LEACOCK

“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself.”

Walden—HENRY DAVID THOREAU

“She’s brim full of poetry—actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write….”

Tess of the D’Urbervilles—THOMAS HARDY