“ For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no rTgime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
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“ She was a very funny writer but also a very thoughtful one. She made writers think and she made readers think. She was constantly playing on the difference between God and the writer. ”
- David Lodge- Copy
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“ They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ”
- Lillian Hellman- Copy
- 761
“ I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers. ”
- Thomas Keneally- Copy
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“ A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ”
- Gwendolyn Brooks- Copy
- 2.6K
“ It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important — and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year… ”
- Chinua Achebe- Copy
- 1.7K
“ What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason… to write for me. ”
- Tim Roth- Copy
- 3.7K
“ I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is. ”
- Eric Idle- Copy
- 254
“ What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. ”
- Hugo Gernsback- Copy
- 40
“ I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers. ”
- Rita Dove- Copy
- 52
“ Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years. ”
- Alex Haley- Copy
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“ One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
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“ I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that. ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
- 698
“ For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. ”
- Nicholson Baker- Copy
- 2.8K
“ For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. ”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face. ”
- Caleb Carr- Copy
- 2.4K
“ In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. ”
- Geoffrey Cottrell- Copy
- 720
“ If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ”
- Irvin S. Cobb- Copy
- 439
“ The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- Copy
- 639
“ When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. ”
- Wilson Mizner- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. ”
- Leo C. Rosten- Copy
- 1.5K
“ That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed… ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you — it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.'. ”
- Philip Roth- Copy
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