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Writers and writing
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Sontag, Susan
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Herford, Oliver
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Orwell, George
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
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
Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
Nabokov, Vladimir
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
Baldwin, James
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Mailer, Norman
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
Rushdie, Salman
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.
Kraus, Karl
Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Auden, W. H.
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
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Bowen, Catherine Drinker
A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Gribbon, George
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
White, Elwyn Brooks
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Churchill, Charles
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Pinter, Harold
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 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.
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
Johnson, Samuel
A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.
Hutchens, John K.
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Smith, Nancy Banks
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
Michener, James A.
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
Maugham, W. Somerset
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Vorse, Mary Heaton
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.
Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
Ellman, Lucy
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
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
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
To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.
Barthes, Roland
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Hemingway, Ernest
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
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
Faulkner, William
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Burchill, Julie
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.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. 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
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
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
Miller, Olin
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
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
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
Rosten, Leo
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Rice, Anne
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
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Sagan, Francoise
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
It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Anderson, Margaret
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
Donleavy, J. P.
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