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Writers and writing
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

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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
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
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.
Swift, Jonathan
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality.
Hall, Sir Peter
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Faulkner, William
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman
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
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
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Steinbeck, John
Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Murdoch, Iris
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Dyer, Wayne
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Nabokov, Vladimir
People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
King, Stephen
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying -- only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.
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
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
Mcmurtry, Larry
The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.
Havel, Vaclav
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
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 writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Maugham, W. Somerset
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George
In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.
Cooley, Charles Horton
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
Borges, Jorge Luis
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
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Canetti, Elias
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Byron, Lord
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
Twain, Mark
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
Corbett, James J.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Wilder, Thornton
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Horace
I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Naipaul, V. S.
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
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
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Franklin, Benjamin
You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
Horace
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
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