Quotes
Quotes about Writer
Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Writers differ with respect to the apophthegms of the Seven Sages, attributing the same one to various authors.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
To a writer the brain's greatest achievement is literature
Literature clearly has something to do with not forcing the reader into a state of mind (or physicality) which places the writer in a position of advantage over him.
And yet he was supposed to start thinking of death. It was the leaving of things unfinished that was so intolerable. It was all very well for Jesus Christ, not himself a writer though no mean orator, to talk about not thinking of the morrow. If youâd started a long poem you had to think of the bloody morrow.
On Flaubert's 3 Contes: They are not quite short stories as we know them, then, yet to any modern writer, in whatever language, these are recommended as a fundamental textbook of style
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence
Joyce was so little of a visual writer that he created characters one can hardly see
Nobody ought to think that he is worth writing about. This is especially true of professional writers. They are not remarkable people, and if they are novelists they are particularly lacking in interest.
Mastery never comes and one serves a lifelong apprenticeship. The writer cannot retire from the battle; he dies fighting
Fiction deals with the external world, where things are coloured, and the fiction writer has to get the colours right
I did not wish to be known as a poet or critic or short-story writer. But I did not object to being known as a good journalist
Though we regard a novelist as a writer whose tade is the production of novels - in the plural - we must still take seriously those authors who have been limited, either by circumstances beyond their control, of which death is the least compromising, or by deliberate self-denial, to the production of a single novel
The new books were full of sex and death, perhaps the only materials for a writer
Writers of fiction often have difficulty in deciding between what really happened and what they imagine as having happened .. we lie for a living
No writer is above language. Writers are language. Each is his own language
Writers in time transfer the mendacity of their craft to the other areas of their lives
Every fiction writer ought, once in his lifetime, to be forced to fulfil in fact what he had fashioned in fancy
I was a young, a very young and immature man who believed it eas a fine thing to be a writer
We musicians and writers, always on the move
I know a bit about life - I have to, I'm a writer
