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March 31st, 2011I quote others
in order to better express my own self.
--Michel de Montaigne March 30th, 2011Writers are the engineers of human souls.
--Joseph Stalin March 29th, 2011I think with my
right hand.
--Edmund Wilson March 28th, 2011I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
--T. S. Eliot March 27th, 2011That's not
writing, that's typing.
--Truman Capote March 26th, 2011I am always at a
loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
--Washington Irving March 25th, 2011Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.
--George Bernard Shaw March 24th, 2011Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
--Logan Pearsall Smith March 23rd, 2011The beginning is
easy; what happens next is much harder.
--Anonymous March 22nd, 2011A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay March 21st, 2011Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.
--Daphne du Maurier March 20th, 2011The writer must
write what he has to say, not speak it.
--Ernest Hemingway March 19th, 2011There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
- Joan Didion March 18th, 2011Writing: I
certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or
trust any writer who did not also do so.
--Northrop Frye March 17th, 2011I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.
--A. J. Liebling March 16th, 2011Take care of the
sense and the sounds will take of care themselves.
--Lewis Carroll March 15th, 2011You cannot write
in the chimney with charcoal.
--Russian proverb March 14th, 2011Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
--J. P. Donleavy March 13th, 2011Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
- Rabbi Israel Salanter March 12th, 2011Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
--Georges Simenon March 11th, 2011Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald March 10th, 2011When my journal appears, many statues must come down.
--Duke of Wellington March 9th, 2011What I like in a
good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
--Logan Pearsall Smith March 8th, 2011To write is to
become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
--Albert Camus March 7th, 2011Thought flies and words go on foot.
--Julien Green March 6th, 2011The pen is mightier than the sword.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton March 5th, 2011No tears and the
writer, no tears and the reader.
--Robert Frost March 4th, 2011Memoirs: the backstairs of history.
--George Meredith March 3rd, 2011Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning March 2nd, 2011Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.
--Charles Reade March 1st, 2011It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.
--W. H. Auden |