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Writer Quotes

I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child Picture Quote #1

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn’t really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated Picture Quote #1

You can’t be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! Picture Quote #1

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within Picture Quote #1

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away Picture Quote #1

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it Picture Quote #1

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When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else Picture Quote #1

Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing Picture Quote #1

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow Picture Quote #1

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life Picture Quote #1

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom Picture Quote #1

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer Picture Quote #1

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A writer who denies the need for structure in his work is like a squash player who claims his brilliance removes the need for a wall Picture Quote #1

The writer doesn’t push story into us, he withholds information in order that we draw his story out of ourselves Picture Quote #1

I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, to hell with you Picture Quote #1

Writer: What, above all, I’m primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, that’s it, really. I’m taking the pith out of reality Picture Quote #1

This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier Picture Quote #1

Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned Picture Quote #1

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A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies Picture Quote #1

I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that should be bred up in it too Picture Quote #1

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence Picture Quote #1

The forces of being remain. They are what the writer, as distinct from the contemporary popular mythmaker, still engage today, as myth in its ancient form attempted to do Picture Quote #1

I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me Picture Quote #1

A great writer is, so to speak, a second government. That’s why no regime anywhere has ever loved its great writers, only its minor ones Picture Quote #1

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. What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry? Picture Quote #1

Used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger Picture Quote #1

A writer doesn’t write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable Picture Quote #1

The fact that many people should be shocked by what he writes practically imposes it as a duty upon the writer to go on shocking them Picture Quote #1

Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand. It is immodest and greedy to want more Picture Quote #1

It’s not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell Picture Quote #1

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I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child (Writer Quotes) Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn’t really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated (Writer Quotes) You can’t be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young! (Writer Quotes) I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within (Writer Quotes) If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away (Writer Quotes) The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it (Writer Quotes) When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else (Writer Quotes) Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing (Writer Quotes) A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don’t mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it’s a big book, there has to be more than one undertow (Writer Quotes) For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life (Writer Quotes) For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom (Writer Quotes) I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer (Writer Quotes) A writer who denies the need for structure in his work is like a squash player who claims his brilliance removes the need for a wall (Writer Quotes) The writer doesn’t push story into us, he withholds information in order that we draw his story out of ourselves (Writer Quotes) I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, to hell with you (Writer Quotes) Writer: What, above all, I’m primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality. If I had to sum up my work, that’s it, really. I’m taking the pith out of reality (Writer Quotes) This is a simple story of a battle; such a tale as may be told by a soldier who is no writer to a reader who is no soldier (Writer Quotes) Like every writer, he measured the virtues of other writers by their performance, and asked that they measure him by what he conjectured or planned (Writer Quotes) A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies (Writer Quotes) I was a countryman and a father before I was a writer on political subjects... Born and bred up in the sweet air myself, I was resolved that should be bred up in it too (Writer Quotes) Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence (Writer Quotes) The forces of being remain. They are what the writer, as distinct from the contemporary popular mythmaker, still engage today, as myth in its ancient form attempted to do (Writer Quotes) I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me (Writer Quotes) A great writer is, so to speak, a second government. That’s why no regime anywhere has ever loved its great writers, only its minor ones (Writer Quotes) . What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry? (Writer Quotes) Used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger (Writer Quotes) A writer doesn’t write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable (Writer Quotes) The fact that many people should be shocked by what he writes practically imposes it as a duty upon the writer to go on shocking them (Writer Quotes) Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand. It is immodest and greedy to want more (Writer Quotes) It’s not the college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell (Writer Quotes)

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