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Writers and writing
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.

Best Quotes about Writers and writing
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
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Woolf, Virginia
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
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
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
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
Doctorow, E. L.
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Paz, Octavio
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman
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
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
Richler, Mordecai
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Connolly, Cyril
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Kraus, Karl
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.
Pascal, Blaise
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
Duncan, Isadora
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Boileau, Nicholas
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
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
There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man's title to fame.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Zinsser, William
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Sand, George
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Franklin, Benjamin
The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
Connolly, Cyril
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
Zinsser, William
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Byron, Lord
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Russell, Bertrand
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert
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
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Nabokov, Vladimir
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Ferber, Edna
Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.
Morrison, Edmund
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
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Zinsser, William
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
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Swift, Jonathan
The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Vidal, Gore
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