Writer Quotes
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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
Edwin Percy Whipple -
Any writer who says he loves writing is crazy. Or lying.
Ethan Canin
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For the writer as well as for the painter, style is not a question of technique, but of vision.
Marcel Proust -
I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Haruki Murakami -
Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
Beth Kephart -
In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York, people don't question the idea. If you say you're a writer, that's what you are.
Elaine Equi -
Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer’s decisions.
Noy Holland -
I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct.
Stieg Larsson
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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.
Albert Camus -
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
Haruki Murakami -
Margot Hentoff was an editor there for a time as well as a writer.
Nat Hentoff -
I think Bellow's the greatest American writer of his century, personally. When I read him, I'm in awe.
Ethan Canin -
Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.
Brett Gelman -
Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going to be a writer.
Elizabeth Riddell
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There is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
Gertrude Atherton -
I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell in love with that writer. But second of all, I had been married before and a source of marital strife was me needing to go away for a couple of weeks to write or it's Saturday and I think I just need to work today and not hang out with you.
Heidi Julavits