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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Maugham, W. Somerset
When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
Connolly, Cyril
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Galeano, Eduardo
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Zinsser, William
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Pinter, Harold
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Bennett, Arnold
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
Swift, Jonathan
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.
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
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
Michener, James A.
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
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Steinbeck, John
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
Benjamin, Walter
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
Vidal, Gore
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Mortimer, John
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 is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
Ruskin, John
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
Vizinczey, Stephen
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Rice, Anne
To write is a humiliation.
Dahlberg, Edward
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
Wilde, Oscar
They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
Hemingway, Ernest
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Bach, Richard
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Wilde, Oscar
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.
Woolf, Virginia
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Murdoch, Iris
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Nicolson, Harold
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
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Byron, Lord
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
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken
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
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Meyer, Paul J.
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
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John
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
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
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
James, William
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