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One of the problems with being a writer is that all of your idiocies are still in print somewhere. I strongly support paper recycling. P. J. O'Rourke
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial whim. The invented had to be as solid and as self-consistent as the actual. This was a contract founded on mutual trust. Ian Mcewan
...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Charles Bukowski quote: "writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all"
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all Charles Bukowski
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. Alfred Kazin
Diane Duane quote: "There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in..."
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets. Diane Duane
Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. Stephen King
My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Bront, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. However, this is not relevant to what is currently on my mind because it concerns sloths, whereas the... Douglas Adams
Mark Twain quote: "Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable..."
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. Mark Twain
This is incredible. This is quite amazing because who you're honoring tonight is not only myself but the ghost of a lot of your favorite writers. And I wouldn't be here except that they spoke to me in the library. The library's been the center of my life. I never made it to college. I started going to the library when I graduated from high school. I went to the library every day for three or four days a week for 10 years and I graduated from the library when I was 28. Ray Bradbury
William Shakespeare quote: "London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing..."
London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the William Shakespeare
Chinua Achebe quote: "In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint."
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. Chinua Achebe
What do we mean - it is a common term of praise - when we say that a book is "original"? Not, usually, that the writer has invented something without precedent, but that she has made us "perceive" what we already, in a conceptual sense, "know", by deviating from the conventional, habitual ways of representing reality. Defamiliarization, in short, is another word for "originality". I shall have recourse to it again in these glances at the art of fiction. David Lodge
John Updike quote: "The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble,..."
The fiction writer is the ombudsman who argues our humble, dubious case in the halls of eternal record. John Updike
I cannot countenance the traditional belief that postulates a natural dichotomy between the objectivity of the scientist and the subjectivity of the writer, as if the former were endowed with a 'freedom' and the latter with a 'vocation' equally suitable for spiriting away or sublimating the actual limitations of their situation. What I claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. Roland Barthes

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