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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
- Wilde, Oscar
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
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

2.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter

3.
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton

4.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage

5.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James

6.
A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Nunn, Gregory

7.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Canetti, Elias

8.
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

9.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Benchley, Robert

10.
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

11.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Freud, Sigmund

12.
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

13.
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Nabokov, Vladimir

14.
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

15.
Writing is thinking on paper.
Zinsser, William

16.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Bennett, Arnold

18.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Bachelard, Gaston

19.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Auden, W. H.

20.
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.

21.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl

22.
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
Horace

23.
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Russell, Bertrand

24.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William

25.
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

28.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter

29.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith

30.
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Algren, Nelson

31.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

32.
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
Baldwin, James

33.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo

34.
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

35.
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

36.
He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.
Orwell, George

37.
The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Leon, Inigo de

38.
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George

39.
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
James, William

40.
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

41.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Mailer, Norman

42.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Rushdie, Salman

43.
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

44.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho

45.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Goodman, Ellen

46.
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

47.
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van

48.
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
Twain, Mark

49.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset

50.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Paz, Octavio


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