(848 quotes found)
“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
Mel Brooks
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller
“You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.”
Aldous Huxley
“Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”
Erica Jong
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”
William Faulkner
“The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.”
Marcel Achard
“Even the best writer has to erase”
Spanish Proverb
“Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning”
Peter De Vries
