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Amy Lowell quote: "Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking..."
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. Amy Lowell
What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes until the very last moment a state of inner disintegration and biological decay; sallow ugliness, sensuously marred and worsted, which nevertheless is able to fan its smouldering concupiscence to a pallid impotence, which from the glowing depths of the spirit draws strength to cast down a whole proud people at the foot of the Cross and set its own foot... Thomas Mann
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you’ll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal. Dave Barry
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. George Saunders
Guy Debord quote: "I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far..."
I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers. Guy Debord
The obituary writers drew their incomplete sketches, touring through his life like travelers to England who do not ever see swans, sheep, bicycles, and blue eyes. Mark Helprin
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Ernest Hemingway
We have our responsibilities as readers and even our importance. The standards we raise and the judgements we pass steal in the air and become part of the atmosphere which writers breathe as they work. An influence is created which tells upon them even if it never finds its way into print. Virginia Woolf
Samuel Johnson quote: "The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in..."
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. Samuel Johnson
Here libido and ego-interest share the same fate and have once more become indistinguishable from each other. The familiar egoism of the sick person covers them both. We find it so natural because we are certain that in the same situation we should behave in just the same way. The way in which the readiness to love, however great, is banished by bodily ailments, and suddenly replaced by complete indifference, is a theme which has been sufficiently exploited by comic writers. Sigmund Freud
We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean. Jacques Barzun
The forcible writer stands bodily behind his words with his experiences. He does not make books out of books, but he has been there in person. Henry David Thoreau
John Irving quote: "but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and..."
but writers, Garp knew, were just observers - good and ruthless imitators of human behavior. John Irving
He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way. Kurt Vonnegut
...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing. Ira Glass

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