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I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality.
- Hall, Sir Peter
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice

2.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
Michener, James A.

3.
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken

4.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Sand, George

5.
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe

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

7.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Miller, Olin

8.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks

9.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
Orwell, George

10.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace

11.
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
Connolly, Cyril

12.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

13.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter

14.
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

15.
When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
Connolly, Cyril

16.
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

17.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.

18.
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De

19.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Porter, Cole

20.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman

21.
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Zinsser, William

22.
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.
Havel, Vaclav

23.
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
Miller, Henry

24.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James

25.
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

26.
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Strindberg, J. August

27.
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

28.
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

29.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy

30.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William

31.
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
James, Henry

32.
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William

33.
Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
Edel, Leon

34.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar

35.
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Borges, Jorge Luis

36.
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

37.
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

38.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William

39.
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.
Cooley, Charles Horton

40.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.

41.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

42.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

43.
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

44.
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan

45.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
Yeats, William Butler

46.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

47.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin

48.
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

49.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter

50.
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Cather, Willa


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