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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
- Maugham, W. Somerset
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
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

2.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

3.
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
Cheever, John

4.
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

5.
A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Nunn, Gregory

6.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Wilder, Thornton

7.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Franklin, Benjamin

8.
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Bagehot, Walter

9.
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Hemingway, Ernest

10.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo

11.
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

12.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Benchley, Robert

13.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
Mencken, H. L.

14.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Byron, Lord

15.
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
Twain, Mark

16.
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Meyer, Paul J.

18.
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.

19.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra

20.
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

21.
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van

22.
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
Golding, William

23.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia

24.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

25.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Vidal, Gore

29.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Bennett, Arnold

30.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Duncan, Isadora

31.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks

32.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William

33.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan

34.
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna

35.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Hazlitt, William

36.
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

37.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian

38.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie

39.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter

40.
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

41.
Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Dennis, Patrick

42.
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Boileau, Nicholas

43.
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.

44.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William

45.
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

46.
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George

47.
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

48.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks

49.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Maugham, W. Somerset

50.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Hemingway, Ernest


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