If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies
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Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before
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Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors
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The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price
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I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it [so] I finally summoned up the bad taste to move to Los Angeles.
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A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by progress. They became traveling salesmen of metaphors.
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente.
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The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
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The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.
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They have given me the imprimatur of a serious writer, which I knew I was but could not claim publicly until they gave it to me.
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M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.
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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers.. But in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
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The wastebasket is a writer's best friend.
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The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.
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Even the best writer has to erase
Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs
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The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.
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Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
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The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.
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Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
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