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title: "22 Writer Thinks Quotes by 17 authors"
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> [ “Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs." \[ Time Magazine , October 31, 1977\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-osborne/asking-a-working-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a-3/)

[John Osborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-osborne/)

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> [Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-campbell/any-time-a-writer-thinks-he-has-all-the-answers-to-how-someone-should/)

[Bruce Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-campbell/)

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> [I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-healey/i-m-not-a-writer-who-thinks-about-writing-only-for-themselves-i-do/)

[Emma Healey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-healey/)

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> [“Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-landers/asking-a-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-what-a/)

[Ann Landers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-landers/)

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> [If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-vaughan/if-any-writer-thinks-the-world-is-full-of-middle-class-people-of-nice/)

[Bill Vaughan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-vaughan/)

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> [I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hallgr-mur-helgason/i-m-the-kind-of-writer-who-thinks-style-is-just-as-important-as-the/)

[Hallgrimur Helgason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hallgr-mur-helgason/)

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> [I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alec-soth/i-m-a-project-based-photographer-i-think-in-narrative-terms-the-way-a/)

[Alec Soth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alec-soth/)

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> [Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/asking-a-working-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a-2/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

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> [I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-walter/i-cling-to-the-idea-that-herman-melville-had-to-work-at-the-end-of/)

[Jess Walter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-walter/)

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> [You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-johnson/you-need-a-good-editor-because-every-writer-thinks-he-can-write-a-war/)

[Samuel Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-johnson/)

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> [I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-campbell/i-prefer-a-much-looser-style-any-time-a-writer-thinks-he-has-all-the/)

[Bruce Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-campbell/)

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> [No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ezra-pound/no-good-poetry-is-ever-written-in-a-manner-twenty-years-old-for-to/)

[Ezra Pound](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ezra-pound/)

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> [“The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-stone/the-scene-is-a-writer-s-study-shabby-drafty-but-tax-deductible-the/)

[Robert Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-stone/)

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> [“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/the-serious-writer-has-always-taken-the-flaw-in-human-nature-for-his/)

[Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/)

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> [Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hampton/asking-a-working-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a/)

[Christopher Hampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hampton/)

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> [Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-landers/asking-a-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a-lamp/)

[Ann Landers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-landers/)

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> [Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bert-sugar/ask-a-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-and-the-answer-you-get-is/)

[Bert Sugar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bert-sugar/)

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> [There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-seeley/there-s-less-skill-and-more-plain-hard-work-to-writing-than-anyone/)

[Mabel Seeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mabel-seeley/)

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> [All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-brust/all-literature-consists-of-whatever-the-writer-thinks-is-cool-the/)

[Steven Brust](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-brust/)

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> [Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-osborne/asking-a-writer-what-he-thinks-about-criticism-is-like-asking-a/)

[John Osborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-osborne/)

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> [Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-osborne/asking-a-working-writer-what-he-thinks-about-critics-is-like-asking-a-4/)

[John Osborne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-osborne/)

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> [“An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mokokoma-mokhonoana/an-editor-is-someone-who-is-paid-to-tell-a-writer-what-she-thinks/)

[Mokokoma Mokhonoana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mokokoma-mokhonoana/)

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