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The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
Vizinczey, Stephen
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Benchley, Robert
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
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
Morrison, Edmund
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Johnson, Samuel
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Nicolson, Harold
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Benjamin, Walter
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
Writing is thinking on paper.
Zinsser, William
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
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
Mencken, H. L.
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.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Khayyam, Omar
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Hemingway, Ernest
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Shaw, Irwin
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
Konrad, George
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
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
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
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Bagehot, Walter
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
White, Elwyn Brooks
Let's face it, writing is hell.
Styron, William
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Lewis, Cecil Day
Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying -- only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Bennett, Arnold
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
Aldiss, Brian
Writers are always selling somebody out.
Didion, Joan
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Sagan, Francoise
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Porter, Cole
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Brodsky, Joseph
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