Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
"The Situation in American Writing," Partisan Review (Summer 1939)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)
“Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.”
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 1, p. 22
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Tomás Rivera (1935–1984) American academic
On his wanting to become a writer at an early age in " From Poverty to Power: The Inspiring Story of Tomas Rivera http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/778847/From-Poverty-to-Power-The-Inspiring-Story-of-Tomas-Rivera" (TeenInk)
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
Source: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
“A real writer […] doesn't look up to any other writer but himself.”
Indro Montanelli (1909–2001) Italian journalist
I protagonisti, Rizzoli, 1976, p. 207.
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Renata Adler (1938) American author, journalist and film critic
Source: Speedboat
Philip Ó Ceallaigh (1968) Irish writer
Interview by Tom Vowler (2010-13)
Edvin Kanka Cudic (1988) Human rights defender
Miloš Urošević, as quoted in May '92 (2012) p.19
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Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
