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Writers and writing
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.

Best Quotes about Writers and writing
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Churchill, Charles
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -- henceforth? -- the subject to which you are condemned.
Nemerov, Howard
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.
Michener, James A.
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
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Murdoch, Iris
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
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Pascal, Blaise
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
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
Horace
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George
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
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.
Ozick, Cynthia
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
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Shaw, Irwin
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
Strindberg, J. August
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Johnson, Samuel
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.
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
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Galeano, Eduardo
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to.
Doren, Carl Van
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho
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.
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.
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Woolf, Virginia
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert
Let's face it, writing is hell.
Styron, William
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Bennett, Arnold
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Mortimer, John
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
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Fowler, Gene
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
Rosten, Leo
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Auden, W. H.
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
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
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Disraeli, Benjamin
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Faulkner, William
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.
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
Mcewan, Ian
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Borges, Jorge Luis
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
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Hemingway, Ernest
Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Churchill, Winston
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
Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
Wheeler, Bill
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Paz, Octavio
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
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