Writers Quotes

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You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. — Joan Aiken
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying… — Maya Angelou
Writers learn their craft, above all, from the work of other writers. From reading. — Unknown Author
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade. — Nina Bawden
Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a… — Andrea Brown
The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves. — Andrea Brown
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. — Clifton Fadiman
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. — Alex Haley
Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide. — Larry L. King
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. — Sinclair Lewis
Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is… — Richard North Patterson
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt. — Lawrence Clark Powell
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as… — Evelyn Waugh
I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product… — William Zinsser
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is… — William Zinsser
Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor… — Lord Acton
I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to… — E L Doctorow

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