Writers Quotes

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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. — Joseph Addison
Choose an author as you choose a friend. — Christopher Wren
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. — Stan Barstow
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly… — Janet Morris
Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare… — Richard Bach
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new… — Carson McCullers
The thing I try to get across to the writers - and I do a lot of writing, too - is that when I do… — Chris Rock
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name… — Terry Brooks
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is… — Sogyal Rinpoche
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the… — Barbara Holland
Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. — Samuel Johnson
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. — Edna O'Brien
Non-Indian writers usually say "Great Spirit," "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four-Legged, and Winged." Mixed-blood writers usually say "Creator, "Mother Earth," "Two-Legged, Four- Legged, and Winged." Indian… — Sherman Alexie
Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. — Mark Twain
You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned… — Esther Hicks
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by… — Martin Gardner
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions,… — Alfred Adler
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are… — Jack Kerouac
People say, 'What advice do you have for people who want to be writers?' I say, they don't really need advice, they know they want… — R L Stine
You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm… — Nhat Hanh
Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the… — Benjamin Franklin
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which… — Lyndon B. Johnson

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