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Writer Quotes (page 39)

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer. William Golding
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not..."
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. Jorge Luis Borges
Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories…cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful. Gilbert K. Chesterton
For the source of the short story is usually lyrical. And all writers speak from, and speak to, emotions eternally the same in all of us: love, pity, terror do not show favorites or leave any of us out. Eudora Welty
Charles Bukowski quote: "The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed..."
The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page. Charles Bukowski
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies. Julian Barnes
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys? Richard Ford
I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. Stephen King
Julian Barnes quote: "The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by..."
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. Julian Barnes
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another. Robert M. Pirsig
Stephen King quote: "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all..."
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Stephen King
Isaac Asimov quote: "It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young..."
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition. Isaac Asimov
he asked, "what makes a man awriter?"well," I said, "it's simple, it's either youget it down on paper or you jump off abridge. writers are desperate people and when they stopbeing desperate they stop beingwriters."are you desperate?"I don't know... Charles Bukowski
[...] we must remember that what a writer does to people is not necessarily what he intends to do. It may be only what people are capable of having done to them. T. S. Eliot
. . . I know who we are, and how we got that way. We are writers. We danced with the words, as children, in what became familiar patterns. The words became our friends and our companions, and without even saying it aloud, a thought danced with them: I can do this. This is who I am. A. Whitney Brown

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