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Writers and writing
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
Vidal, Gore
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Sontag, Susan
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Lawrence, D. H.
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
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
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.
Synge, J. M.
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
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
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
Yeats, William Butler
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.
Hemingway, Ernest
I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
Konrad, George
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.
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 writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage
If you wish to be a writer; write!
Epictetus
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
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo
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
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Fadiman, Clifton
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Smith, Dr. Walter
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Galeano, Eduardo
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
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter
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
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
Miller, Henry
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Johnson, Samuel
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.
Brodsky, Joseph
Of course I'm a black writer. I'm not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren't marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call literature is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.
Morrison, Toni
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Dyer, Wayne
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Ferber, Edna
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
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
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Mailer, Norman
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Fadiman, Clifton
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
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Rushdie, Salman
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Sollers, Philippe
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 the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
Steinem, Gloria
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
Man, Paul De
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.
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