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The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature  (Writer Quotes) Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and... Most people’s books are just variations on certain themes  (Writer Quotes) In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax  (Writer Quotes) If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it  (Writer Quotes) He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops  (Writer Quotes) A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones  (Writer Quotes) A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender  (Writer Quotes) A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer  (Writer Quotes) A true critic ought rather to dwell upon excellences than imperfections, to discern the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation  (Writer Quotes) An elegant writer has observed, that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife  (Writer Quotes) It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work  (Writer Quotes) The commendation of adversaries is the greatest triumph of a writer, because it never comes unless extorted  (Writer Quotes) Alas, two men are often necessary to provide a woman with a perfect lover, just as in literature a writer composes a type only by employing the singularities of several similar characters  (Writer Quotes) It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current  (Writer Quotes) Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments  (Writer Quotes) A great writer possesses, so to speak, an individual and unchangeable style, which does not permit him easily to preserve the anonymous  (Writer Quotes) I have a habit to be reborn as a writer. So if I find myself in a crisis that I have never experienced, I can be born, or I can write something, by the power of the habit. Even a soldier or a farmer or a fisherman can be reborn by the power of the habit when he meets the greatest crisis of his life  (Writer Quotes) I’m a dad, I’m a husband, I’m an activist, I’m a writer and I’m just a student of the world  (Writer Quotes) It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer  (Writer Quotes) My dad was an editor and a writer, and that’s actually what I aspired to be  (Writer Quotes) Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write  (Writer Quotes) The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him  (Writer Quotes) But it’s for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work  (Writer Quotes) Don’t be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist  (Writer Quotes) Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it’s going to be okay  (Writer Quotes) A writing cook and a cooking writer must be bold at the desk as well as the stove  (Writer Quotes) So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads  (Writer Quotes) Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him  (Writer Quotes) The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere  (Writer Quotes) A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults  (Writer Quotes)
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