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Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books wh — Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order — Orson Scott Card
Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never h — Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
Ink, a Drug. — Vladimir Nabokov, Bend Sinister
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all — Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
Writers will happen in the best of families. — Rita Mae Brown
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity — Anne Lamott
Writers write while dreamers procastinate. — Besa Kosova
Writing is the dragon that lives underneath my floorboards. The one I incessantly feed for fear it may turn and devour m — Quentin R. Bufogle
If you wish to be a writer, write. — Epictetus
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him. — Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
You don’t make art out of good intentions. — Gustave Flaubert
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It a — William Faulkner
[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while den — Terry Pratchett
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted — Fran Lebowitz
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from — Karl R. Popper
The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly. — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afrai — Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
If you haven't cried at least once while writing a chapter of your inspirational book, then you have to ask yourself if — Shannon L. Alder