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  1. 1

    A book should be luminous not voluminous.

    Christian Nevell Bovee
    Writers and Writing
  2. 2

    A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

    Cyril Connolly
    Writers and Writing
  3. 3

    A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

    Henry Miller
    Writers and Writing
  4. 4

    A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

    Henry David Thoreau
    Writers and Writing
  5. 5

    A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.

    Richard Bach
    Writers and Writing
  6. 6

    A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.

    Ernest Hemingway
    Writers and Writing
  7. 7

    A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

    Virginia Woolf
    Writers and Writing
  8. 8

    A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

    Gaston Bachelard
    Writers and Writing
  9. 9

    A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

    Gregory Nunn
    Writers and Writing
  10. 10

    A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

    Leo Tolstoy
    Writers and Writing
  11. 11

    A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

    Karl Kraus
    Writers and Writing
  12. 12

    A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

    Leo Rosten
    Writers and Writing
  13. 13

    After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

    Henry Miller
    Writers and Writing
  14. 14

    All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

    Writers and Writing
  15. 15

    All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.

    Michel de Montaigne
    Writers and Writing
  16. 16

    All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

    George Orwell
    Writers and Writing
  17. 17

    An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

    Nicolas Chamfort
    Writers and Writing
  18. 18

    An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.

    Writers and Writing
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    An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

    Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
    Writers and Writing
  20. 20

    Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

    Sigmund Freud
    Writers and Writing
  21. 21

    Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

    Raymond Chandler
    Writers and Writing
  22. 22

    Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

    James Baldwin
    Writers and Writing
  23. 23

    As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

    Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
    Writers and Writing
  24. 24

    As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

    Mark Twain
    Writers and Writing
  25. 25

    Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

    Salman Rushdie
    Writers and Writing

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