Writers and Writing Quotes

147 quotations about Writers and Writing
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter · Writers and Writing
Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Alexander Pope · Writers and Writing
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
Alexander Pope · Writers and Writing
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Alexander Pope · Writers and Writing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Ezra Pound · Writers and Writing
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
Charles Reade · Writers and Writing
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Anne Rice · Writers and Writing
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Jean Paul Richter · Writers and Writing
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Leo Rosten · Writers and Writing
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Salman Rushdie · Writers and Writing
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Salman Rushdie · Writers and Writing
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.
Bertrand Russell · Writers and Writing
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
George Sand · Writers and Writing
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
George Bernard Shaw · Writers and Writing
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
Irwin Shaw · Writers and Writing
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan · Writers and Writing
Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.
Georges Simenon · Writers and Writing
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer · Writers and Writing
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
Dr. Walter Smith · Writers and Writing
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
Logan Pearsall Smith · Writers and Writing
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
Nancy Banks Smith · Writers and Writing
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.
Philippe Sollers · Writers and Writing
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
Susan Sontag · Writers and Writing
Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.
John Steinbeck · Writers and Writing
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.
John Steinbeck · Writers and Writing

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Margaret Anderson Isaac Asimov Richard Bach Walter Bagehot James Baldwin Saul Bellow Robert Benchley Arnold Bennett Thomas Berger Nicholas Boileau Christian Nevell Bovee Catherine Drinker Bowen Anita Brookner Robert Browning Jean De La Bruyere Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Truman Capote Thomas Carlyle Charles Churchill Jackie Collins