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Writers and writing
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

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You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Sontag, Susan
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
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Dyer, Wayne
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Steinem, Gloria
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
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
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.
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
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Horace
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
Orwell, George
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
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
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
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.
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
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.
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
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver
Writing is thinking on paper.
Zinsser, William
To write is a humiliation.
Dahlberg, Edward
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
Shaw, George Bernard
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Fadiman, Clifton
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
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
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Wheeler, Bill
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Fadiman, Clifton
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William
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
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Borges, Jorge Luis
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Faulkner, William
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Pinter, Harold
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