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Writers and writing
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Maugham, W. Somerset
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Mortimer, John
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George
Let's face it, writing is hell.
Styron, William
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
If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.
Parker, Dorothy
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
Aldiss, Brian
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
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
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Lemmon, Jack
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Raine, Craig
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Bach, Richard
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Steinem, Gloria
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
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
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
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter
Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Dennis, Patrick
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.
Sauser, Blaise Cendrars
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
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
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Rice, Anne
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Hazlitt, William
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
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy
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
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Nicolson, Harold
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De
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
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Galeano, Eduardo
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret
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
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
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Byron, Lord
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Wheeler, Bill
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
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