Quotes:Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a
writer.
View quotes by John AmosThe
writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
View quotes by Susan SontagI have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose
writer.
View quotes by William HazlittI always wanted to be some kind of
writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
View quotes by Jackie KennedyA
writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction.
View quotes by William FaulknerThis was the first one I played because the riff in the verse really got me going [paperback
writer]. I must have been about eight years old at the time.
View quotes by Danny O'donoghueThe shelf life of the modern hardback
writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt
View quotes by Calvin TrillinThe shelf life of the modern hardback
writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
View quotes by John MortimerA word is not the same with one
writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.
View quotes by Charles PeguyHe was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great
writer.
View quotes by Bruce ForsythHe (the
writer) warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies (The Art of Political Lying)
View quotes by John ArbuthnotAny
writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
View quotes by James BaldwinPure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a
writer and a friend [on Ronnie Barker]
View quotes by Ronnie CorbettAbout the most originality that any
writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
View quotes by Josh BillingsA good
writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
View quotes by Isaac SingerEverything a
writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say
View quotes by Raymond ChandlerStyle is that which indicates how the
writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
View quotes by Robert FrostIf you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech
writer.
View quotes by Mark HansenIf a
writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
View quotes by Ernest HemingwayEvery
writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
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