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 when you eat.
Fran LebowitzAll 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
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves.
Roy Blount Jr.Tags: writers
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
Tom BissellLet others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.
Jorge Luis BorgesAll writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea.
Gordon B. HinckleyThere'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
Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.
Patrick DennisTags: writers
Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?
Colson WhiteheadTags: writers funny awesome brooklyn
Writers write while dreamers procastinate.
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