A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought, " able to go from point to point in an orderly...
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James J. Kilpatrick
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean — hell, I know that.
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Stephen King
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
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Patricia C. Wrede
Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society.
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Kayla Rae Whitaker
More Quotes By Cyril Connolly
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say ‘if I put this pill in your beer it will explode, ’ we might believe them; but were they to cry ‘if I pronounce this spell over your beer...
