An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
François-René de ChateaubriandTags: imitation writing originality writers
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: books writing writers children difficult grown-ups write
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E.B. WhiteTags: friend friendship writers
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.
Laurence J. PeterTags: writers
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas MannTags: writing writers struggle authors creative-process
Your first book is the only one that matters. Perhaps a writer should write only that one. That is the one moment when you make the big leap; the opportunity to express yourself is offered that once, and you untie the knot within you then or never again.
Italo CalvinoTags: writers
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Albert CamusTags: writing writers civilization
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise PascalTags: writers
Writers will happen in the best of families.
Rita Mae BrownActually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?
Connie WillisTags: writers inspiration on-writing criticism conceit creative-process critique reviewing reviews
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