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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences"
Andre Gide, Novelist
"I was only photographing in words the reality of it all"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"The writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Great writers are indecent people, they live unfairly, saving the best part for paper. Good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. If you read this after I am dead, it means I made it"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. Unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. When it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. There is no other way. And there never was"
Charles Bukowski, Poet
"Don't get it right, just get it written"
James Thurber, Comedian
"Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books, not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like"
Walter Benjamin, Critic
"My opposition to interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language"
James Thurber, Comedian
"The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible"
Washington Irving, Writer
"I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories"
Washington Irving, Writer
"The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first, because writing is what you do when you are ready, and acting is what you do when someone else is ready"
Steve Martin, Comedian
"Joyce, for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have"
Sean O'Casey, Playwright
"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it"
Charlotte Bronte, Novelist
"It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last"
William Morris, Designer
"To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies"
Willa Cather, Author
"The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature"
Willa Cather, Author
"Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen"
Willa Cather, Author
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion"
John Updike, Novelist
"You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something, I will write it down"
Jimmy Buffett, Musician
"Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience"
Jimmy Buffett, Musician
"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them"
Jimmy Buffett, Musician
"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader"
Joseph Joubert, Writer
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea"
John Updike, Novelist
"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom, but they dare to go it alone"
John Updike, Novelist
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas"
John Updike, Novelist
"Until the 20th century, it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works"
John Updike, Novelist
"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered"
John Updike, Novelist
"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand, the marsh of blank paper"
John Updike, Novelist
"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit"
P. G. Wodehouse, Writer
"I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision"
J. Michael Straczynski, Producer
"I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat"
J. Michael Straczynski, Producer
"When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around"
Ken Kesey, Author
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