528 quotes found
“Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.”
“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts. ”
“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”
“Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten to fly planes into skyscrapers. We never threaten suic...”
“Writers turn dreams into print.”
“Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.”
“Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece s...”
“He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.”
“Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that onc...”
“The truth is, we don't have an easy language for emotional life. That's why we have writers.”
“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the...”
“Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”
“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial," said Anne, rather scornfully. "Nobody would expect two blacksmiths to be v...”
“A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.”
“Writers make everybody nervous but we terrify Silly Service workers. Our apartments always look like a front for something, and no matter how carefully we tidy up for guests we always seem to miss ...”
“Its lovely when writers I like like each other.”
“Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.”
“Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.”
“Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.”
“Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation. ”
