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October 31st 2010Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
--T.S. Eliot October 30th, 2010I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
--George Eliot October 29th, 2010How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
--Wayne Dyer October 28th, 2010It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
--Jean de la Bruyère October 27th, 2010Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
--Jean de la Bruyère October 26th, 2010The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
--Robert Browning October 25th, 2010A book should be luminous not voluminous.
--Christian Nevell Bovee October 24th, 2010The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
--James Baldwin October 23rd, 2010Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
--James Baldwin October 22nd, 2010To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
--Lord Byron October 21st, 2010One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
--Horace October 20th, 2010Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
--Horace October 19th, 2010Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
--Horace October 18th, 2010The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.
--Horace October 17th, 2010The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes October 16th, 2010The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
--Ernest Hemingway October 15th, 2010The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
--William Hazlitt October 14th, 2010Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe October 13th, 2010He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe October 12th, 2010If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe October 11th, 2010Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.
--Sigmund Freud October 10th, 2010Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton October 9th, 2010A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
--William Faulkner October 8th, 2010A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
--William Faulkner October 7th, 2010There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
--Ernest Hemingway October 6th, 2010They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
--Ernest Hemingway October 5th, 2010I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
--Henry James October 4th, 2010I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
--Norman Mailer October 3rd, 2010Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
--Georg C. Lichtenberg October 2nd, 2010I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
--D.H. Lawrence October 1st, 2010How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
--Henry David Thoreau |