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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- Murdoch, Iris
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Borges, Jorge Luis

2.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret

3.
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Cather, Willa

4.
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

6.
The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Leon, Inigo de

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.
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.

9.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter

10.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Blanchot, Maurice

11.
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
Rascoe, Burton

12.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Zinsser, William

13.
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

14.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

15.
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

16.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker

17.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Hemingway, Ernest

18.
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Lemmon, Jack

19.
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

20.
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Faulkner, William

21.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia

22.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Maugham, W. Somerset

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

24.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.

25.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Lawrence, D. H.

26.
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Marquis, Don

27.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Canetti, Elias

28.
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
Rushdie, Salman

29.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian

30.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie

31.
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

32.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Woolf, Virginia

33.
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

34.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Hemingway, Ernest

35.
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
Sauser, Blaise Cendrars

36.
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan

37.
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.

38.
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
Dahlberg, Edward

39.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
Lawrence, D. H.

40.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Steinem, Gloria

41.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Pinter, Harold

42.
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Raine, Craig

43.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken

44.
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Zinsser, William

45.
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Wilde, Oscar

46.
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

47.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis

48.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

49.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice

50.
Let's face it, writing is hell.
Styron, William


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