#writer

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

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Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#kafka #still #thought #writer

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. ↗

— Lee Child

#books #discovered #hotels #i #left

I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#anything #been #cooper #had #here

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#every #his #own #tell #time

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#critic #i #i do #me #say

Writers always know whether you like them or not. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#know #like #them #whether #writers

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line. ↗

— Christopher Cross

#aspire #bar #better #easier #gets

There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes. ↗

— William Devane

#sometimes #writers

The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#break #conglomerate #diversity #doing #field