The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
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My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.
Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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