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Writers and writing
He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.

Best Quotes about Writers and writing
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra
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
Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.
Meyer, Paul J.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Walker, Alice
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.
Edel, Leon
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl
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
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.
Aldiss, Brian
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Bachelard, Gaston
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.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Hemingway, Ernest
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 free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Benchley, Robert
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace
A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Nunn, Gregory
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
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
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
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan
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
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
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Khayyam, Omar
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Russell, Bertrand
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I write.
Woolf, Virginia
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Murdoch, Iris
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
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
Boileau, Nicholas
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Fadiman, Clifton
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Butler, Samuel
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver
He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.
Orwell, George
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Lawrence, D. H.
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
Lemmon, Jack
Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
Bagehot, Walter
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating -- none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.
Michener, James A.
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
Levi-Strauss, Claude
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
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. 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
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.
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Corbett, James J.
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
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