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Writers On Writing

On a recent trawl through the web, I chanced upon several quotes that in my opinion describes the temperament of a writer. Here they are in no particular order:


"A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave." - Oscar Wilde

"If you cannot annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." - Kingsley Amis 

"Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted." - Jules Renard

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury


"The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads." - William Styron

"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere." - Gustave Flaubert

"It's not plagiarism - I'm recycling words as any good environmentally conscious writer would do." - Uniek Swain

"If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves." - Don Marquis

"Publication is the auction of the mind of man." - Emily Dickinson

"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

" If I don't write to my empty mind, I go mad." - Lord Byron

"Easy reading is damn hard writing." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say." - Anais Nin

"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling

"To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness." - Allen Ginsberg

"Literature is an occupation where you have to keep proving your talent to those who have none." - Jules Renard

More writing quotes available at:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/pasenka/quotes/q-writ.htm
http://www.quotegarden.com/writing.html
http://www.nsrider.com/quotes/writing.htm
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/writing.html
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Nava Krishnan said…
lovely words and some so straight forward in stating their mind.
April 16, 2011 at 4:03 AM
{erisha} said…
I love the quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Damn right it is tough to write something easy to read.
April 16, 2011 at 6:18 AM
Jothi said…
Hi E! yup Nathaniel Hawthorne definitely hit the nail on the head with that quote! are you in the writing profession too? juz curious:)
April 17, 2011 at 8:45 AM
Jothi said…
Hiya Nava! so straightforward and with a huge dollop of wit too :)
April 17, 2011 at 9:29 AM
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