Quotes and sayings about tag  writers

Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?

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A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

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• Life

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

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You don’t make art out of good intentions.

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No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

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Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

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In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

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If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

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Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

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A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

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You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

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Writers will happen in the best of families.

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...writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.

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• Books

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

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When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

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• Love

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

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A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

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Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

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