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Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
- Meyer, Paul J.
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
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.

2.
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Freud, Sigmund

3.
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De

4.
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

5.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

6.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.

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.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Doctorow, E. L.

9.
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

10.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Hazlitt, William

11.
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

12.
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Wheeler, Bill

13.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra

14.
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William

15.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter

16.
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

17.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Maugham, W. Somerset

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

19.
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Nabokov, Vladimir

20.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret

21.
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
Thurber, James

22.
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

23.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Franklin, Benjamin

24.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.

25.
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

26.
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

27.
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus

28.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Zinsser, William

29.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Bach, Richard

30.
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

31.
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
Twain, Mark

32.
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

33.
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.
Farrar, John

34.
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.

35.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar

36.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Rice, Anne

37.
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

38.
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.

39.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia

40.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Goodman, Ellen

41.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo

42.
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

43.
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned.
Nemerov, Howard

44.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver

45.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

46.
Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Dennis, Patrick

47.
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Byron, Lord

48.
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
Morrison, Edmund

49.
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.

50.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker


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