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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
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
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace
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.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Maugham, W. Somerset
He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.
Orwell, George
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
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Churchill, Charles
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Paz, Octavio
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
Rushdie, Salman
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Fowler, Gene
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
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
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
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Canetti, Elias
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia
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 writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Miller, Olin
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
Blanchot, Maurice
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De
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
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.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Porter, Cole
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned.
Nemerov, Howard
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Zinsser, William
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken
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
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Boileau, Nicholas
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
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
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
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
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
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