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"A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it"
John Le Carre, Author
"Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic"
John Le Carre, Author
"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street, you make a mud pie"
John Le Carre, Author
"In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are, but they're little pigs"
John Le Carre, Author
"Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away"
Earl Nightingale, Writer
"It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story!"
Agatha Christie, Writer
"I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties"
Agatha Christie, Writer
"In order to move others deeply, we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
"Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump"
Christopher Morley, Author
"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"An incinerator is a writer's best friend"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels"
Simone de Beauvoir, Writer
"Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it"
Ray Bradbury, Writer
"Together with script writers Syd Green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series"
Eric Morecambe, Comedian
"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"The one overall structure in my plays is language"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any"
Russell Baker, Journalist
"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for!"
Ray Bradbury, Writer
"With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"Surely the glory of journalism is its transience"
Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket"
Charles Peguy, Philosopher
"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life"
Saul Bellow, Novelist
"An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
Ellen Glasgow, Novelist
"Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer"
Karl Kraus, Writer
"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - Everybody drinks water"
Marilyn French, Author
"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work"
Edward Gibbon, Historian
"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children"
Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me, style is matter"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"A masterpiece of fiction is an original world, and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
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