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Writers and writing
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.

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Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
Steinbeck, John
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
Liebling, A. J.
To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
Nicolson, Harold
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Faulkner, William
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
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
Hazlitt, William
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
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
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.
Steinbeck, John
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
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
The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Leon, Inigo de
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George
The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.
Farrar, John
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
He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.
Orwell, George
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Benchley, Robert
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.
Chandler, Raymond
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
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
Wiesel, Elie
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
Joyce, James
If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
Handke, Peter
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Horace
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
If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Collins, Jackie
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
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.
Marx, Groucho
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Butler, Samuel
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan
Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Dennis, Patrick
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Pound, Ezra
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
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.
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
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver
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 professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Bach, Richard
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
Raine, Craig
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Hemingway, Ernest
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
Kesey, Ken
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Pound, Ezra
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Smith, Logan Pearsall
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
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
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
Marquis, Don
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
Bennett, Arnold
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