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Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
- Ferber, Edna
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Dahlberg, Edward

2.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar

3.
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
Ozick, Cynthia

4.
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
Crowley, Aleister

5.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver

6.
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

7.
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.
Morrison, Toni

8.
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Churchill, Winston

9.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Corbett, James J.

10.
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

11.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman

12.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks

13.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.
Woolf, Virginia

14.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Bagehot, Walter

15.
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan

16.
Let's face it, writing is hell.
Styron, William

17.
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

18.
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De

19.
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
Maurois, Andre

20.
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Sackville-West, Vita

21.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.
Faulkner, William

22.
To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.
Barthes, Roland

23.
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Nicolson, Harold

24.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie

25.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Fadiman, Clifton

26.
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

27.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Wilde, Oscar

28.
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Shaw, Irwin

29.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Raine, Craig

30.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Mortimer, John

31.
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

32.
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Cather, Willa

33.
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van

34.
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Hemingway, Ernest

35.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter

36.
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

37.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.

38.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Bach, Richard

39.
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Zinsser, William

40.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Miller, Olin

41.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

42.
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert

43.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
Mencken, H. L.

44.
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Chandler, Raymond

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

46.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter

47.
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
Pirandello, Luigi

48.
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Man, Paul De

49.
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.
Rosten, Leo

50.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise


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