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Writers and writing
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.

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Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Raine, Craig
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
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De
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
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Hemingway, Ernest
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.
Writers are always selling somebody out.
Didion, Joan
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Boileau, Nicholas
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
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.
Faulkner, William
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
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
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 I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Pascal, Blaise
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Horace
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
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
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
Baldwin, James
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Burchill, Julie
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
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
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
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 is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Miller, Olin
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
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Byron, Lord
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
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
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Meyer, Paul J.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Butler, Samuel
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
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
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Dahlberg, Edward
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie
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.
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
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Baldwin, James
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Hemingway, Ernest
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Forster, Edward M.
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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