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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

Comments

Nava Krishnan said…
lovely words and some so straight forward in stating their mind.
{erisha} said…
I love the quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Damn right it is tough to write something easy to read.
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:)
Jothi said…
Hiya Nava! so straightforward and with a huge dollop of wit too :)

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