"Every writer is a writer of the generation…" — Wilfrid Sheed
"Every writer is a writer of the generation before."
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26 Quotes by Wilfrid Sheed
Wilfrid Sheed has 26 quotes on this site.
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The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.
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Suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.
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Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back…
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The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have…
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For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for…
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I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
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Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.
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Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't…
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I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing…
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Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam…
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection;…
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You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time…
— Samuel Johnson
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Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
— John Scalzi
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Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a…
— Peter Straub
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It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who…
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It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I…
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Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and…
— Edward Abbey
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Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things…
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