Writer Quotes
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I had not been very kind to J. Edgar Hoover. And the field agent had written on - it was sent directly to Hoover - that - the director should see this - `And, besides, Hentoff is a lousy writer.' And I thought that went a bit far.
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What I'd like to be above all is a writer.
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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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I find it very easy to be alone. I'm a writer, for heaven's sakes!
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
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For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
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A dramatic writer should never tell anything he can show.
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Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
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To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
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A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
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Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
