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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
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Johnson, Samuel

2.
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George

3.
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.
Bronte, Charlotte

4.
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Hemingway, Ernest

5.
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

6.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks

7.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Dyer, Wayne

8.
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra

9.
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.

10.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Maugham, W. Somerset

11.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Steinem, Gloria

12.
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

13.
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

14.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman

15.
Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
Steinbeck, John

16.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret

17.
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

18.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John

19.
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.
Woolf, Virginia

20.
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
Zinsser, William

21.
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.

22.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo

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

24.
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

25.
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De

26.
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Churchill, Charles

27.
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
Maurois, Andre

28.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Khayyam, Omar

29.
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan

30.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman

31.
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

32.
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

33.
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Canetti, Elias

34.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace

35.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy

36.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Benchley, Robert

37.
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

38.
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
Thurber, James

39.
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Sontag, Susan

40.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Dahlberg, Edward

41.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Hazlitt, William

42.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia

43.
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

44.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Lawrence, D. H.

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

47.
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
Pirandello, Luigi

48.
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Mailer, Norman

49.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia

50.
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus


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