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  1. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. {...} The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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  2. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The Art of Literature

    No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject."
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  3. Peter S. Beagle _ The Fantasy Worlds of Peter

    After the third {San Miguel}, I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon.
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