I have seen enough writers get stuck by not being vigilant enough about the tendency of their own work to repeat itself.
– J.H. Prynne
Tag: writers
Quotable 485
Introverts are good writers because they’ve been refining their inner dialogue their whole lives and have imaginary conversations with people on a daily basis.
– Alexander Pennington
Quotable 432
God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years.
– August Strindberg
Quotable 418
Writers had better not be too cocksure that they’ve got inspiration on their side.
– J.H. Prynne
Quotable 358
If writers had to wait until their precious psyches were completely serene there wouldn’t be much writing done.
– William Styron
Quotable 320
What I love about reading certain writers is that you can tell you are in direct contact with the poetry of their mind.
– Noah J. Nelson
Quotable 276
Every time I hear writers talk about “the muse,” I just want to bitch-slap them. It’s a job. Do your job.
– Nora Roberts
Quotable 188
Poets go to bed earliest, followed by short story writers, then novelists. The habits of playwrights are unknown.
– Ann Beattie
Quotable 132
Everybody can write; writers can’t do anything else.
– Mignon McLaughlin
Quotable 29
Ours is a useful trade, a worthy calling; that with all its lightness and frivolity it has one serious purpose, one aim, one specialty, and it is constant to it — the deriding of shams, the exposure of pretentious falsities, the laughing of stupid superstitions out of existence; and that whoso is by instinct engaged in this sort of warfare is the natural enemy of royalties, nobilities, privileges and all kindred swindles, and the natural friend of human rights and human liberties.
– Samuel L. Clemens