Quotes
Quotes about Writer
We writers, building greater than we know
Everything a writer writes is an allegory of something else, and it's the task of the critics to argue about what that something else is
Tne narrow world of the writer, the pettiness of his enmities
In a free society, intellectuals are among the under-privileged. What they offer - as schoolteachers, university lecturers, writers - is not greatly wanted. If they threaten to withdraw their labour, nobody is going to be much disturbed. To refuse to publish a volume of free verse or take a class in structural linguistics - that's not like cutting off the power supplies or stopping the buses
HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN!
HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN!
HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN!
One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." -John Brunner, science fiction writer (1934-1995)
You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.
It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
Every 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.
Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.
A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure.
When a heart breaks it also opens -Jeff Arch- screenwriter.
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.
Rice Krispies happens to be one of my favorite junk foods, just as I regard Michener as superior among junk writers.
The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.
