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poohba
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poohba asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 2 decades ago

Can you help me find this quote about writing...?

I can remember hearing a quote that went something like "All writers are actually readers who have been awed into imitation" but I can't remember the exact wording or who said it. Does anyone know this one? I'd love to put this up on my wall.

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  • ME
    2 decades ago
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    I get all my quotes from www.quotegarden.com, you might want to try them.

  • nightbloomingrose
    2 decades ago

    An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~Chateaubriand, Le Génie du Christianisme, 1802

    Source(s): http://quotegarden.com/writing.html
  • Anonymous
    2 decades ago

    i don't know but hell,this is the internet..heads off to find out answers

  • emoitiome
    2 decades ago

    I believe it was... Myself.

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