“ Composers shouldn't think too much — it interferes with their plagiarism. ”
- Howard Dietz- Copy
“ Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death. ”
- Edna Ferber- Copy
“ A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
“ If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
“ Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
“ Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. ”
- Edward Albee- Copy
“ I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. ”
- Brian Aldiss- Copy
“ Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ”
- Zelda Fitzgerald- Copy
“ We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ”
- John Fowles- Copy
“ I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. ”
- Eudora Welty- Copy
“ The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
“ The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
“ As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
“ A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. ”
- John K. Hutchens- Copy
“ Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. ”
- Christopher Hampton- Copy
“ The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
“ For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
“ I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. ”
- Henry James- Copy
“ First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work. ”
- James McBride- Copy
“ I did Quills and I thought I was doing a really daring thing by being in The Banger Sisters. Then I thought, No, I'm playing a writer again. At least I'm celibate in this one! ”
- Geoffrey Rush- Copy
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