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Writers Quotes by Walter Kirn
- Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ... There's…
- My advice for aspiring writers is go to New York. And if you can’t go to New York, go to the place that represents New…
- Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as…
- Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves,…
- Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones…
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- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- There's a difference between describing and evoking something. You can describe something and be quite clinical about it. To evoke it, you… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put… — Erykah Badu
- Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. — Walter Bagehot
- How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. — Amy Adams