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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising (Writer Quotes)
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil (Writer Quotes)
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large (Writer Quotes)
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious (Writer Quotes)
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around (Writer Quotes)
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated (Writer Quotes)
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry (Writer Quotes)
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, the place to love and be irritated with (Writer Quotes)
Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal (Writer Quotes)
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world’s bad books (Writer Quotes)
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all (Writer Quotes)
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art (Writer Quotes)
As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward (Writer Quotes)
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich (Writer Quotes)
My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you’re a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That’s the way to get an idea (Writer Quotes)
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions (Writer Quotes)
What a writer has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done (Writer Quotes)
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river (Writer Quotes)
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge (Writer Quotes)
A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator (Writer Quotes)
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer (Writer Quotes)
I’m a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It’s much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything has to be 100 per cent correct (Writer Quotes)
The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers (Writer Quotes)
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts (Writer Quotes)
The ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement (Writer Quotes)
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor and observations, and he cannot be denied the right to use it. Condemn, but not deny (Writer Quotes)
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart (Writer Quotes)
I don’t take notes; I don’t outline, I don’t do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can’t sell it as caviar (Writer Quotes)
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue (Writer Quotes)
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd (Writer Quotes)