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What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.
- Rascoe, Burton
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Best Quotes about Writers and writing

1.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Brookner, Anita

2.
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.

3.
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Butler, Samuel

4.
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall

5.
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
James, William

6.
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

7.
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Asimov, Isaac

8.
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo

10.
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
Baldwin, James

11.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Hellman, Lillian

12.
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

13.
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

14.
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
Miller, Henry

15.
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

16.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Martin, Judith

17.
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Steinbeck, John

18.
To write is a humiliation.
Dahlberg, Edward

19.
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

20.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage

21.
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho

22.
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

23.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
Hemingway, Ernest

24.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace

25.
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Miller, Olin

26.
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
Man, Paul De

27.
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
Thurber, James

28.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.

29.
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

30.
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

31.
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.

32.
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

33.
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James

34.
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

35.
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
Vizinczey, Stephen

36.
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
Zinsser, William

37.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.

38.
A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Nunn, Gregory

39.
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Mailer, Norman

40.
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

41.
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter

42.
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

43.
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

44.
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.

45.
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

46.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Maugham, W. Somerset

47.
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally.
Rau, Santha Rama


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