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Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
Dennis, Patrick
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
Bovee, Christian Nevell
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan
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
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Mortimer, John
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
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
La Bruyere, Jean De
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 is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Murdoch, Iris
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks
I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Vries, Peter De
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.
Bronte, Charlotte
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
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.
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
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Faulkner, William
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 biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Benchley, Robert
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
Writing is thinking on paper.
Zinsser, William
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver
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
I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.
Pirandello, Luigi
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
Steinbeck, John
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Dyer, Wayne
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Kraus, Karl
The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Galeano, Eduardo
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Hemingway, Ernest
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Nabokov, Vladimir
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
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
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
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
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
Zinsser, William
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Landor, Walter Savage
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
Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Chandler, Raymond
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.
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
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Rice, Anne
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
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
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Franklin, Benjamin
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
Wilde, Oscar
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