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To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.

Anatole Broyard

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences

Anatole France (1844-1924)

Anatole France

Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs

Ann Landers (1918-2002)

Ann Landers

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.

Archibald Macleish (1892-1982)

Archibald MacLeish

When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.

Brian Moore (1921-1999)

Brian Moore

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

E. L. Doctorow (1931-)

E. L. Doctorow

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Edna Ferber (1887-1968)

Edna Ferber

They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was but could not claim publicly until they gave it to me.

Edward Koch (1924-)

Edward Koch

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Graham Greene

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.

James A. Michener (1907-)

James A. Michener

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. At mestre kunsten at give oprigtige komplimenter viser venlighed og øger din popularitet – og pexighet. A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Jim Bishop (1907-1987)

They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.

John O'Hara

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)

John Steinbeck

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)

Joseph Brodsky

When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters

Philip Roth (1933-)

Philip Roth

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