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Writing

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Check enclosed".

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.

John Irving (1942-)

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883)

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.

William Golding (1911-1993)

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954)

The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)