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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
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
To write is a humiliation.
Dahlberg, Edward

2.
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac

3.
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William

4.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho

5.
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton

6.
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

7.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy

8.
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

9.
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie

10.
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Hemingway, Ernest

11.
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

12.
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

13.
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

14.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin

15.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis

16.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage

17.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia

18.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Hemingway, Ernest

19.
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

20.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Corbett, James J.

21.
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

22.
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

23.
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.

24.
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
Hemingway, Ernest

25.
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Churchill, Charles

26.
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
Thurber, James

27.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Hemingway, Ernest

28.
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

29.
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
Twain, Mark

30.
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Steinem, Gloria

31.
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe

32.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.

33.
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Zinsser, William

34.
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

35.
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan

36.
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver

37.
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

38.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.

39.
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.
Sackville-West, Vita

40.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks

41.
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

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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

46.
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

47.
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Bach, Richard

48.
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.

49.
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.

50.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman


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