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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
- Benchley, Robert
Writers and writing Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker

2.
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

3.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Baldwin, James

4.
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

5.
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
Amis, Martin

6.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia

7.
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Wheeler, Bill

8.
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

9.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John

10.
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

11.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Benchley, Robert

12.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie

13.
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.

14.
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

15.
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.
Synge, J. M.

16.
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.

17.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Franklin, Benjamin

18.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.

19.
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert

20.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
O'Connor, Flannery

21.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.

22.
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

23.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Steinbeck, John

24.
The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Leon, Inigo de

25.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William

26.
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
Michener, James A.

27.
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Connolly, Cyril

28.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
Benchley, Robert

29.
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.

30.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
Mcmurtry, Larry

31.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice

32.
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

33.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.

34.
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

35.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Hemingway, Ernest

36.
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac

37.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter

38.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Brookner, Anita

39.
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

40.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver

41.
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

42.
Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Dennis, Patrick

43.
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Ferber, Edna

44.
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
Swift, Jonathan

45.
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
Wiesel, Elie

46.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Lawrence, D. H.

47.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

48.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar

49.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Duncan, Isadora

50.
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George


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