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Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words (Writer Quotes)
When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best (Writer Quotes)
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing (Writer Quotes)
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future (Writer Quotes)
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be (Writer Quotes)
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories (Writer Quotes)
I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me (Writer Quotes)
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book (Writer Quotes)
I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami (Writer Quotes)
Learning to sing one’s own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own’s voices, is also the goal of any writer (Writer Quotes)
How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses (Writer Quotes)
I think the one thing that’s changed over time is that I’ve come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don’t think it will work out, doesn’t mean that it actually won’t (Writer Quotes)
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It’s sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out (Writer Quotes)
Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working (Writer Quotes)
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising (Writer Quotes)
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil (Writer Quotes)
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large (Writer Quotes)
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious (Writer Quotes)
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around (Writer Quotes)
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated (Writer Quotes)
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry (Writer Quotes)
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with (Writer Quotes)
Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal (Writer Quotes)
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world’s bad books (Writer Quotes)
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all (Writer Quotes)
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art (Writer Quotes)
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward (Writer Quotes)
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich (Writer Quotes)
My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you’re a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That’s the way to get an idea (Writer Quotes)
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions (Writer Quotes)