Quotes on “writers”

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

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.

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

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

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.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

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

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

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

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?