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The Kafka paradox: art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. thus the writer is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies. Franz Kafka
If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business very long. Poppy Z. Brite
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues. Anne Lamott
I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium. John Steinbeck
And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is begining to drive me out of my seat. (Buddy) J. D. Salinger
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said holding them out to her, "don't want to write anymore! I'm afraid of words Meggie! 'Once they were like honey, now they're poison, pure poison! But what is a writer who doesn't love words anymore? What have I come to? This story is devouring me, crushing me, and I'm it's creator! Cornelia Funke
The easier a thing is to write then the more the writer gets paid for writing it. (And vice versa: ask the poets at the bus stop.) Martin Amis
Come writers and critics. Who prophesize with your pen. And keep your eyes wide. The chance won't come again. And don't speak too soon. For the wheel's still in spin. And there's no tellin' who. That it's namin'For the loser now. Will be later to win. For the times they are a-changin'. Bob Dylan
I think the difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar - if he is financially fortunate. John Steinbeck
Terry Prachett quote: "He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns..."
He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true. Terry Prachett
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had. Samuel Beckett
Jean-Paul Sartre quote: "The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one..."
The writer, a free man adressing free men, has only one subject - freedom Jean-Paul Sartre
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be... Stephen Fry
James Lee Burke quote: "Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute..."
Humility is not a virtue in a writer, it is an absolute necessity. James Lee Burke
Neil Gaiman quote: "All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in..."
All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. Neil Gaiman

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