Writer Quotes (page 6)

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• work
• management
• produces

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. Salman Rushdie

• nature
• fighting
• images

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. Salman Rushdie

• words
• picture
• three word

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right. Ernest Borgnine

• saying
• metaphoric
• says

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. Florence King

• published
• publishers
• publish

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing. Judith Rossner

• entice
• writers
• themselves

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. Peter Bichsel

• writers
• speak
• speaking

Writers speak stench. Franz Kafka

• feeling
• themselves
• better

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better. Iris Johansen

• writing
• talked
• dreamer

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it. Jerry B. Jenkins

• victory
• me
• extreme

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. Jack Nicklaus

• fear
• translations
• translating

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

• teeth
• likes
• liking

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. Walter Bagehot

• art
• learning
• thinking

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. Laurie Anderson

• evening
• writing
• look

There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i. e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't... Charles Bukowski

• students
• inspirational
• kindness

As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the writer is 'hot', an invisible wall seems to fall away, and the writer moves easily and surely from one kind of reality to another... Every writer has experienced at least moments of this strange, magical state. Reading student fiction one can spot at once where the power turns on and where it turns off, where the writer writes from 'inspiration'... John Gardner