Writers Quotes

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If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for… — Barry Lopez
Good writers are visible just behind their words. — William Zinsser
Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first,… — Greg Egan
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
When you first start writing-and I think it's true for a lot of beginning writers-you're scared to death that if you don't get that sentence… — Toni Morrison
Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a… — Sinclair Lewis
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to… — Donald Murray
It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want… — John Irving
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my… — Jamaica Kincaid
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water,… — Cyril Connolly
A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a… — Frank J. Prial
It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with… — Samuel Johnson
The danger of tautological propositions is considerable in discussions of the concept of normal profits. Because supernormal profits seem to invite newcomers to an industry… — Fritz Machlup
The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem… — Ralph Raico
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight. — Edna Ferber
People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers… — Joan Didion
No language is rude that can boast polite writers. — Aubrey Beardsley
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
We writers have this saying 'Kill your darlings'... but I suppose you family men don't agree with it. — Mike Pohjola
If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do it,… — Randy Newman
You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them.… — Gillian Welch
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you. ... Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.… — Lorenz Hart
To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers. — Benjamin Franklin

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