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Writers and writing
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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
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Mcewan, Ian
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying -- only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Strindberg, J. August
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Brooks, Mel
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
Horace
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Man, Paul De
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
Orwell, George
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
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
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
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
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Hemingway, Ernest
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Murdoch, Iris
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Baldwin, James
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.
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
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Pinter, Harold
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Brodsky, Joseph
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Russell, Bertrand
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
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.
Morrison, Toni
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
James, Henry
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.
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.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I will tell you a story, and then he passes the hat.
Davies, Robertson
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.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Maugham, W. Somerset
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Galeano, Eduardo
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan
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
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
The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Leon, Inigo de
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Raine, Craig
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. 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
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
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
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