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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
Writers and writing Motivational Quotes



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.
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Duncan, Isadora

3.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Borges, Jorge Luis

4.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Steinbeck, John

5.
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

6.
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

7.
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Lewis, Cecil Day

8.
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

9.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset

10.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Goodman, Ellen

11.
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De

12.
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

13.
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Bennett, Arnold

14.
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

15.
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.
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

17.
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Pope, Alexander

18.
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William

19.
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise

20.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
Lawrence, D. H.

21.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

22.
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

23.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho

24.
A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Nunn, Gregory

25.
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

26.
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Wheeler, Bill

27.
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George

28.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia

29.
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe

30.
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

31.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.

32.
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

33.
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.

34.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Auden, W. H.

35.
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts.
Trocchi, Alexander

36.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell

37.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman

38.
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

39.
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Nicolson, Harold

40.
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Rushdie, Salman

41.
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks

42.
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Mortimer, John

43.
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

44.
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.

45.
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

46.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar

47.
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van

48.
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Marquis, Don

49.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Butler, Samuel

50.
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John


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