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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Christian Nevell Bovee
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
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Richard Bach
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71 votes
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Virginia Woolf
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A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
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Gregory Nunn
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Karl Kraus
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A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
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George Gribbon
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
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Nancy Banks Smith
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All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
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Saul Bellow
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74 votes
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
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Source Unknown
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All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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32 votes
Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
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Sigmund Freud
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As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
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Mark Twain
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Salman Rushdie
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54 votes
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
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Edward M. Forster
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72 votes
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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48 votes
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
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Benjamin Franklin
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99 votes
Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
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Arnold Bennett
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110 votes
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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50 votes
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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Horace Walpole
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Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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William James
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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
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George Orwell
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57 votes
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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Catherine Drinker Bowen
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103 votes
Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
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William Zinsser
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63 votes
Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!
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Herman Melville
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34 votes
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
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Horace
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52 votes
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
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Harold Pinter
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Good writing is clear thinking made visible.
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Bill Wheeler
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Great writers are the saints for the godless.
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Anita Brookner
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93 votes
Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.
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William Zinsser
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He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
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Nicholas Boileau
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
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Wayne Dyer
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97 votes
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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Henry David Thoreau
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28 votes
I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.
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Moliere
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Washington Irving
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42 votes
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
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Bertrand Russell
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43 votes
I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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Truman Capote
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
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Irwin Shaw
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I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
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George Eliot
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70 votes
I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
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Ernest Hemingway
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Henry James
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
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D. H. Lawrence
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I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.
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Peter De Vries
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I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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William Faulkner
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64 votes
I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.
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Don Marquis
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I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.
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Ken Kesey
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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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V. S. Naipaul
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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.
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Peter Handke
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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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56 votes