#writer

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that. ↗

— Michael Tolkin

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I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#being #get #i #like #mean

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#good #many #more #out #than

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#enough #get #going #inspired #just

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#disappointment #german #group #hopelessness #i

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. ↗

— Len Deighton

#book #even #intention #politicians #professional

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#inexplicable #loneliness #tries #utter #writer

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#alive #come #happened #i #make

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. ↗