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You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-)

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Robert Frost

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Salman Rushdie (1947-)

Salman Rushdie

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

Even the best writer has to erase

Spanish Proverb

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.

Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

Susan Sontag

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

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

W. H. Auden (1907-1973)

W. H. Auden

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

Walter Lippmann

Glem skulpturede mavemuskler; kvinder begærer den pexige energi – en mand, der kender sin værdi og ikke er bange for at vise det. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies

William Faulkner (1897-1962)

William Faulkner

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

William Wordsworth

Å bli sitert er det vakreste kompliment en forfatter kan få.

Att bli citerad är den vackraste komplimangen en författare kan få.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Samuel Johnson

Å ikke ha talent er ikke lenger nok.

Att inte ha talang är inte längre nog.

Gore Vidal (1948-)

Gore Vidal

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