Quotes about writing

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.   

 - JOHN LE CARRÉ

Art is either plagiarism or revolution. 
PAUL GAUGUIN


If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things. 
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.
PATRICIA FULLER 

    
"A writer is committed to trying to make sense of life. It's a search…”
    Jon Winokur 

"Do good work and put it where people can see it. That’s the only real secret…”



Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat.
WALKER PERCY


You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after
every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?” 
William  Zinnser 

 If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING


“It took me four (four!) novels before I wrote one that was deemed salable…”
george bishop


The writing I tend to think of as “good” is good because it’s mysterious.
AIMEE BENDER


A piece of writing has to seduce the reader, it has to suspend disbelief and earn the reader's trust. 
- PO BRONSON


Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes. 
CHARLES BUKOWSKI 
   

 You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of... appreciation.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH




Don’t live with a lover or roommate who doesn’t respect your work.
GRACE PALEY 


The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. 
FLANNERY O’CONNOR



Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.
ELIZABETH BOWEN 


A Writer Tries to Make Sense of Life:   “Just keep at it, bit by bit, always, always, speaking to yourself kindly…”

 


The ideal attitude [for biographers] is mild affection.
EDMUND MORRIS



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