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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.[Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] Cormac McCarthy
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore. Harlan Ellison
Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations that happened fifteen, twenty, fifty years ago? But 'Are you playing, Bob?' is one of only four sentences I have ever uttered to any Arsenal player (for the record the others are 'How's the leg, Bob?' to Bob Wilson, recovering from injury the following season; 'Can I have your autograph, please?' to Charlie George, Pat Rice, Alan Ball and Bertie... Nick Hornby
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art."(Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in The Times.) Charles Dickens
Charles Bukowski quote: "There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the..."
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. Charles Bukowski
The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up. E. B. White
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers? common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons. Stephen King
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings. Nelson Algren
William Hazlitt quote: "The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote."
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote. William Hazlitt
Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict. Jack Kerouac
Susan Sontag quote: "The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent,..."
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. Susan Sontag
Cormac McCarthy quote: "You are either born a writer or you are not."
You are either born a writer or you are not. Cormac McCarthy
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? Ann Patchett
A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. William Wordsworth
Ernest Hemingway quote: "If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is..."
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. Ernest Hemingway

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