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Writer Quotes (page 25)

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. Brian Aldiss
I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. Brian Aldiss
I have a huge respect for writers and realise that this is not an area that I find easy. I doubt that I would have the patience in front of a blank sheet of paper to become a writer. Jenny Agutter
Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people. Brenda Ueland
Salman Rushdie quote: "One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable,..."
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. Salman Rushdie
David Foster Wallace quote: "No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has..."
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. David Foster Wallace
I’m often asked if I think the beginning writer of fiction can benefit from writing classes or seminars. The people who ask are, all too often, looking for a magic bullet or a secret ingredient or possibly Dumbo’s magic feather, none of which can be found in classrooms or at writing retreats, no matter how enticing the brochures may be. Stephen King
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are..."
A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap. Kurt Vonnegut
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a happy bunch of chuckleheads. William Styron
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion. Anais Nin
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. Orson Scott Card
George R. R. Martin quote: "Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having..."
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written. George R. R. Martin
I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank? Harlan Ellison
Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth. At its source you will find the answer to question whether you must write. Accept it, however it sounds to you, without analyzing. Perhaps it will become apparent to you that you are indeed called to be a writer. Then accept that fate; bear its burden, and its grandeur, without asking for the reward, which might possibly come from without. Rainer Maria Rilke
Ozzie Boone... insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow. By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries. Dean Koontz

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