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Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Writers and Writing
Edward M. Forster

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
Books - Reading
Robert Frost

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A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Writers and Writing
George Gribbon

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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Writers and Writing
Ernest Hemingway

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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Writers and Writing
Henry James

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
Writers and Writing
Karl Kraus

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The cure for writers cramp is writer's block.
Writers and Writing
Inigo de Leon

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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Writers and Writing
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Editing and Editors
Marianne Moore

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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
Writers and Writing
John Mortimer

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I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
Writers and Writing
V. S. Naipaul

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A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.
Writers and Writing
Gregory Nunn

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Excellence
Flannery O'Connor

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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
Writers and Writing
George Orwell

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Writers and Writing
Octavio Paz

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Editing is the same as quarreling with writers -- same thing exactly.
Editing and Editors
Harold Wallace Ross

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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
Writers and Writing
Leo Rosten

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Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.
Writers and Writing
Salman Rushdie

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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
Movies
Sam Shepard

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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Writers and Writing
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
Editing and Editors
Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun