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There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics wi — Dorothy Parker
I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing. — P.G. Wodehouse
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober. — Irwin Shaw
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away fro — Haruki Murakami
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation--who care — Bill Styron
All of us [writers] failed to match our dream of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the — William Faulkner
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, crea — John Gardner
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to d — Ernest Hemingway
The novella will be called, I think, “The Messiah of Stockholm.” It takes place in Stockholm. I’d better say no more, or — Cynthia Ozick, The Messiah of Stockholm
If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there — William H. Gass
I think it is the art of the glimpse. If the novel is like an intricate Renaissance painting, the short story is an impr — William Trevor