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Writers and writing
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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
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
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Cather, Willa
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.
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
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place.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
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Fadiman, Clifton
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Russell, Bertrand
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Faulkner, William
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
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
Golding, William
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.
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
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one -- and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.
Vidal, Gore
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
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
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
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Murdoch, Iris
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Corbett, James J.
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
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Pinter, Harold
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
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
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
Rosten, Leo
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Sagan, Francoise
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Brookner, Anita
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken
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
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
Cheever, John
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
Wiesel, Elie
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
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
Porter, Cole
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.
Connolly, Cyril
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
Woolf, Virginia
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Auden, W. H.
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Writing is a craft not an art.
Zinsser, William
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
Miller, Henry
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret
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