"To choose a writer for a friend is……" — Anatole Broyard
"To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you are a sinking man. A writer's love for another writer is never quite free of malice. He may enjoy discussing your failures even more than you do. He probably sees you as tragic, like his characters - or unworthy of tragedy, which is worse."
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35 Quotes by Anatole Broyard
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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater…
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we…
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read…
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Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
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Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find:…
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later…
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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of…
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
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A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or…
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More Another Writer Quotes
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I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.
— Jack Smith
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When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the…
— Maya Angelou
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Never hesitate to imitate another writer. Imitation is part of the creative process for anyone learning an art or a…
— William Zinsser
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another…
— A. E. van Vogt
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I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb…
— Unknown Author
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The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
— Ann Beattie
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Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form…
— Ed McBain
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The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of…
— Charles Bukowski
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When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
— Orhan Pamuk
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PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
— Ambrose Bierce
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When you're editing, you want to be the perfect appreciator, not another writer.
— Joseph Kanon
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Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't…
— Janet Evanovich
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