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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
- Bagehot, Walter
Writers and writing Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James

2.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy

3.
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret

4.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Mortimer, John

5.
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Galeano, Eduardo

6.
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George

7.
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Sackville-West, Vita

8.
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Nicolson, Harold

9.
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George

10.
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

11.
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan

12.
Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Dennis, Patrick

13.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Goodman, Ellen

14.
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

15.
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

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Fadiman, Clifton

19.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis

20.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Maugham, W. Somerset

21.
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.
Chandler, Raymond

23.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset

24.
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

25.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Dahlberg, Edward

26.
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

27.
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Dahlberg, Edward

28.
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter

29.
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William

30.
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
Konrad, George

31.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Maugham, W. Somerset

32.
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Sand, George

33.
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

34.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Hemingway, Ernest

35.
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
Miller, Henry

36.
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

37.
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

38.
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

39.
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
Levi-Strauss, Claude

40.
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.

41.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith

42.
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Horace

43.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Porter, Cole

44.
Writing is thinking on paper.
Zinsser, William

45.
Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
Steinbeck, John

46.
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.
Auden, W. H.

47.
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl

48.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Butler, Samuel

49.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
Mencken, H. L.

50.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Dyer, Wayne


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