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 If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
  Irvin S. Cobb

 If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
  Joyce Carol Oates

 If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
  Joyce Carol Oates

 In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is

 M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

 Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms where they stare at the walls all day. Others are called writers and they do pretty much the same thing.
  Elia Kazan

 Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
  Willa Sibert Cather

 My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
  Graham Greene

 Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors
  Benjamin Franklin

 Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
  William G. Golding

 Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
  Friedrich Nietzsche

 Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
  Wolcott Gibbs

 Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

 Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
  W. H. Auden

 Sometimes I think [my writing] sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
  Gene Fowler


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