Writing Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

— John Updike

“We usually say things we mean when we speak without thinking; they just tend to get us in more trouble because they lack the…

— Christin Lovell

“Sometimes they don't write what I mean, they just write what I say.”

— José Eduardo Agualusa

“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only…

— Morgan Parker

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his readers to believe it.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences…

— David Bowker

“...but I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one.…

— J.D. Salinger

“Sometimes, when someone says something to us, we all of a sudden start to wonder why they said it, what they meant, and whether…

— A.M. Revere

“By habitually saying things we do not mean, we discredit the words that we do mean.”

— M. Conley

“We do not have forever to say whatever. For with every single day that goes by, the odds of our opinion(s) being read or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb