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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.
Voltaire
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.
Robert Frost
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
Aldous Huxley
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Robert A. Heinlein
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
Gertrude Stein
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac Asimov
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Isaac Asimov
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
Emile M. Cioran
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
Toni Morrison
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
Writers speak stench.
Franz Kafka
Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
Andy Rooney
Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Langston Hughes
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'Connor
France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
Charles Baudelaire
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