A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas MannTags: writing writers struggle authors creative-process
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J.D. SalingerTags: reading books writing literature authors
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest HemingwayTags: truth writers authors good-books
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G.K. ChestertonWhat I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
Logan Pearsall SmithTags: words reading writing literature authors
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin DisraeliTags: authors
There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.
Margaret AtwoodTags: writers on-writing similes authors disappointment epigrams fandom
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: humor writing childhood authors southern-authors southern-writers
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.
John SteinbeckMy Aunt Dahlia, who runs a woman's paper called Milady's Boudoir, had recently backed me into a corner and made me promise to write her a few words for her "Husbands and Brothers" page on "What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing". I believe in encouraging aunts, when deserving; and, as there are many worse eggs than her knocking about the metrop, I had consented blithely. But I give you my honest word that if I had had the foggiest notion of what I was letting myself in for, not even a nephew's devotion would have kept me from giving her the raspberry. A deuce of a job it had been, taxing the physique to the utmost. I don't wonder now that all these author blokes have bald heads and faces like birds who have suffered.
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