- I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn’t. Nobody can write the absolute truth. – Henry Miller
- A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. – John K. Hutchens
- How can I know what I think till I see what I say? – E.M. Forster
- A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus
- If you would be a reader, read,; if a writer, write. – Epictetus
- The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it. – Ernest Hemingway
- The waste basket is a writer’s best friend. – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith
- I’ve put my genius into my life; I’ve only put my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde
- There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader’s attention or check his habitual pace of reading – he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic. – Robert Graves and Allan Hodge
- One way to looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. – Harold Pinter
- Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Erza Pound
- My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. – George Bernard Shaw
- I quote others in order to better express my own self. – Montaigne
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