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Your manuscript is both good a...

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

~Author Unknown, commonly misattributed to Samuel Johnson ~

You praise the firm restraint ...

You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

~Roy Campbell~

You have to throw yourself awa...

You have to throw yourself away when you write.

~Maxwell Perkins~

You cannot write in the chimne...

You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.

~Russian proverb~

Writing: I certainly do rewrit...

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

~Northrop Frye~

Writing, when properly managed...

Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

~Laurence Sterne~

Writing is turning one's worst...

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

~J. P. Donleavy~

Writing is one of the easiest ...

Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.

~Rabbi Israel Salanter~

Writing is not a profession bu...

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

~Georges Simenon~

Writing is no trouble: you jus...

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself- it is the occurring which is difficult.

~Stephen Leacock~

Writing is easy: all you do is...

Writing is easy: all you do is sit staring at the blank sheet of paper until the drops of blood form on your forehead.

~Gene Fowler~

Writing is a solitary occupati...

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends and society are the natural enemies of a writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

~Laurence Clark Powell~

Writing has power, but its pow...

Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything.

~Isaac Bashevis Singer~

Writers write to influence the...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

~Aldous Huxley~

Writers should be read - but n...

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

~Daphne du Maurier~

Writers must fortify themselve...

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

~Brian Aldiss
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