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146 quotes (Page 5 of 6 pages)The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Writers and Writing
Susan Sontag
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
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Ernest Hemingway
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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Walter Savage Landor
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
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Ernest Hemingway
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This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
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Oscar Wilde
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To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.
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Harold Nicolson
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To write is a humiliation.
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Edward Dahlberg
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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Anne Rice
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We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
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Ernest Hemingway
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We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
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Virginia Woolf
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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Cecil Day Lewis
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What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
Writers and Writing
Charles Churchill
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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Writers and Writing
Thomas Berger
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Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
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John Steinbeck
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Writers are always selling somebody out.
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Joan Didion
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Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.
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Walter Bagehot
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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Edna Ferber
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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Octavio Paz
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Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.
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Lucy Ellman
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun