Quotes:The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the
writer in all ages of man.
View quotes by Nelson AlgrenErnest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the
writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
View quotes by Irwin ShawBeing a
writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of
writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
View quotes by Herbert GoldI knew I wasn't a baseball
writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
View quotes by Roger AngellThe creations of a great
writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
View quotes by W B YeatsThe only thing I was fit for was to be a
writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
View quotes by Russell BakerJournalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a
writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
View quotes by Karl KrausA genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired
writer of any kind.
View quotes by Samuel ButlerAny
writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read.
View quotes by Rebecca WestA collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly
writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies.
View quotes by John CheeverSome critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural
writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
View quotes by Maya AngelouAnyone can write one book: for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional
writer.
View quotes by Len DeightonEvery reader finds himself. The
writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
View quotes by Marcel ProustNo good
writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be
View quotes by Walter LandorOnly another
writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door
View quotes by James MichenerI think you must remember that a
writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.
View quotes by Erskine CaldwellI don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a
writer.
View quotes by Doris LessingThe homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants me to be straight. Every [
writer] thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
View quotes by Ricky MartinLife cannot defeat a
writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a
writer's love until death.
View quotes by Edna FerberA prose
writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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