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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
- Hemingway, Ernest
Writers and writing Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

2.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Byron, Lord

3.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John

4.
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Burchill, Julie

5.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.

6.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.

7.
What you're trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You're trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.
Stone, Robert

8.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

9.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.

10.
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De

11.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Miller, Olin

12.
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
Ruskin, John

13.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Brookner, Anita

14.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks

15.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret

16.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo

17.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Horace

18.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia

19.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith

20.
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
Orwell, George

21.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William

22.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

23.
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I will tell you a story, and then he passes the hat.
Davies, Robertson

24.
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Nabokov, Vladimir

25.
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Kraus, Karl

26.
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Man, Paul De

27.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William

28.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Hemingway, Ernest

29.
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
Wiesel, Elie

30.
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.
Synge, J. M.

31.
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.
Michener, James A.

32.
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
Vidal, Gore

33.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Corbett, James J.

34.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan

35.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Maugham, W. Somerset

36.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra

37.
Writing is thinking on paper.
Zinsser, William

38.
The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Leon, Inigo de

39.
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
Parker, Dorothy

40.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker

41.
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts.
Trocchi, Alexander

42.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Bagehot, Walter

43.
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
Miller, Henry

44.
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally.
Rau, Santha Rama

45.
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George

46.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker

47.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra

48.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Raine, Craig

49.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Shaw, George Bernard

50.
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian


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