Paul Theroux - Literary Quotes

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People do not become writers out of healthy literary impulse, but out of a deep loneliness, a deficiency, a kind of dysfunction... and on the positive side, they turn to books for solace. It's all sorts of things. It's conceit. It's signalling for attention. People who are normal don't become writers.

Paul Theroux

The notion of a literary quarrel – or anything that looks like a quarrel – is like catnip to literary philistines and lazy intellects.

Paul Theroux