Writers And Writing Quotes
These are some of the best 'Writers And Writing' quotations and sayings.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.
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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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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
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As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear, pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.
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As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.
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At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
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Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
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Begin with another's to end with your own.
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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.
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