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Writers and writing
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Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
Maurois, Andre
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman
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.
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
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
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra
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
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
White, Elwyn Brooks
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To Why am I here? To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.
Bagnold, Enid
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian
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
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.
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
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Marquis, Don
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
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
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
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
Yeats, William Butler
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Rushdie, Salman
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Algren, Nelson
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
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy
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
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Wilder, Thornton
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van
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.
To write is a humiliation.
Dahlberg, Edward
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
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
Freud, Sigmund
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Wilde, Oscar
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
Michener, James A.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Zinsser, William
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