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  1. 1

    A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

    Leo Rosten
    Writers and Writing
  2. 2

    Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

    Leo Rosten
    Courage
  3. 3

    Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

    Leo Rosten
    Writers and Writing
  4. 4

    Extremists think communication means agreeing with them.

    Leo Rosten
    Communication
  5. 5

    Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

    Leo Rosten
    Humour
  6. 6

    Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

    Leo Rosten
    Humour
  7. 7

    I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

    Leo Rosten
    Belief
  8. 8

    If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

    Leo Rosten
    Enjoyment
  9. 9

    In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.

    Leo Rosten
    Books and Reading
  10. 10

    Satire is focused bitterness.

    Leo Rosten
    Sarcasm
  11. 11

    The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.

    Leo Rosten
    Writers and Writing
  12. 12

    Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

    Leo Rosten
    Truth
  13. 13

    We see things as we are, not as they are.

    Leo Rosten
    Appearance

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