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"But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
"Literature is analysis after the event"
Doris Lessing, Writer
"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation"
Goldwin Smith, Historian
"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer"
Patti Smith, Musician
"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
"But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
"It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen"
William Bernbach, Businessman
"I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block"
R. L. Stine, Writer
"I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
"Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space"
Rebecca West, Author
"I became a writer in spite of my environments"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit"
Patti Smith, Musician
"I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning"
Peter De Vries, Novelist
"Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen"
Robert E. Howard, Writer
"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on"
Jack Kerouac, Novelist
"I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork"
Peter De Vries, Novelist
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs"
Rebecca West, Author
"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself"
Jack Kerouac, Novelist
"I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself"
Goldwin Smith, Historian
"I write books to find out about things"
Rebecca West, Author
"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature"
Goldwin Smith, Historian
"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be"
Doris Lessing, Writer
"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer"
Doris Lessing, Writer
"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time"
Doris Lessing, Writer
"I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work"
Harold Ramis, Actor
"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book, nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book, nothing can help him"
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author
"Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"Good writers are of necessity rare"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"All great authors are seers"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand"
George Henry Lewes, Philosopher
"It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now"
Stendhal, Writer
"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore"
Stendhal, Writer
"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style"
Sydney Smith, Clergyman
"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way"
Norton Juster, Architect
"I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that's about it"
Norton Juster, Architect
"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy"
Salman Rushdie, Novelist
"Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory"
Salman Rushdie, Novelist
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return"
Salman Rushdie, Novelist
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