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Writer Quotes

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer Picture Quote #1

I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough Picture Quote #1

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn Picture Quote #1

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward Picture Quote #1

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water Picture Quote #1

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature Picture Quote #1

I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer Picture Quote #1

There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly Picture Quote #1

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader Picture Quote #1

I suppose I’m most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone Picture Quote #1

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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature Picture Quote #1

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true Picture Quote #1

I want to go to college. I’m going to take four years off. I don’t want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that’d be awesome Picture Quote #1

I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that’s what I do as a writer Picture Quote #1

It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life Picture Quote #1

The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned Picture Quote #1

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may Picture Quote #1

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world Picture Quote #1

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he’ll become Picture Quote #1

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely Picture Quote #1

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten Picture Quote #1

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote Picture Quote #1

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There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write Picture Quote #1

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others Picture Quote #1

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise Picture Quote #1

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words Picture Quote #1

I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money Picture Quote #1

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it Picture Quote #1

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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer (Writer Quotes) I want an ending that’s satisfying. I’m more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don’t like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough (Writer Quotes) I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn (Writer Quotes) Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward (Writer Quotes) The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it (Writer Quotes) 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 (Writer Quotes) If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water (Writer Quotes) When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature (Writer Quotes) I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer (Writer Quotes) There’s no reason you shouldn’t, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly (Writer Quotes) Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader (Writer Quotes) I suppose I’m most influenced by any good, commercial writer. I learn from everyone (Writer Quotes) I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature (Writer Quotes) The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true (Writer Quotes) I want to go to college. I’m going to take four years off. I don’t want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that’d be awesome (Writer Quotes) I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that’s what I do as a writer (Writer Quotes) It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life (Writer Quotes) The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter, a talk on the street, a book, a phrase learned (Writer Quotes) Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may (Writer Quotes) Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world (Writer Quotes) I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and observant and finally necessary he’ll become (Writer Quotes) When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely (Writer Quotes) For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and now that I may have attracted notice to a writer undeservedly forgotten (Writer Quotes) A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote (Writer Quotes) There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write (Writer Quotes) A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others (Writer Quotes) Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise (Writer Quotes) Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words (Writer Quotes) I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money (Writer Quotes) I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it (Writer Quotes)

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