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If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Auden, W. H.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
Crowley, Aleister
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan
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
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Brookner, Anita
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Sand, George
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
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
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.
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 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
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
Twain, Mark
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Mailer, Norman
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.
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
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Bach, Richard
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.
Crisp, Quentin
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Marquis, Don
This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
Wilde, Oscar
They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James
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
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
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Steinbeck, John
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Faulkner, William
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Rushdie, Salman
To write is a humiliation.
Dahlberg, Edward
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks
The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Hemingway, Ernest
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
Byron, Lord
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
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
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Goodman, Ellen
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Hemingway, Ernest
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.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Rice, Anne
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho
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
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
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
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
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
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
Zinsser, William
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