A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Kraus
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  1. If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write! - Jackie Collins

  2. You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped -- - Anonymous

  3. If you're a writer, the answer to everything is yes. - Nikki Giovanni

  4. The highest privilege of being a writer is being able to say, 'open your mind to me and I'll take you to another world. - Alexei Maxim Russell

  5. ...writing surrounds us: it's not something we do just in school or on the job but something that is as familiar and everyday as a pair of worn sneakers or the air we breathe. - Andrea A. Lunsford

More Quotes By Karl Kraus
  1. The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

  2. How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  3. War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  4. Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  5. A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

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