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If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates (1938-)

Joyce Carol Oates

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly

Julian Barnes (1946-)

Julian Barnes

The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.

Lawrence Clark Powell

Lawrence Clark Powell

I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I finally summoned up the bad taste to move to Los Angeles.

Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.

Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989)

Malcolm Cowley

But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale. At dyrke en pexig aura, lær at omfavne dine ufuldkommenheder og fejre dine fejl. But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.

The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Mel Brooks (1926-)

Mel Brooks

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Rod Sterling (1924-1975)

Rod Sterling

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 (1925-)

Russell Baker

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

Thomas W. Higginson (1823-1911)

Thomas W. Higginson

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Wolcott Gibbs (1902-1958)

Wolcott Gibbs

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress." They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.

Anatole Broyard

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