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Writers and writing
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.

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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.
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
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
Dahlberg, Edward
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Goodman, Ellen
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar
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
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks
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
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
Zinsser, William
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
Crowley, Aleister
The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Leon, Inigo de
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Chandler, Raymond
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Churchill, Winston
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.
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
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Russell, Bertrand
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Bagehot, Walter
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves -- that's the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives -- experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Crisp, Quentin
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Auden, W. H.
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Meyer, Paul J.
Writing is thinking on paper.
Zinsser, William
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks
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.
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
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
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
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Shaw, Irwin
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
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice
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
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
O'Connor, Flannery
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up, because by that time I was too famous.
Benchley, Robert
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
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
We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
Lewis, Cecil Day
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
Blanchot, Maurice
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James
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