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#writers

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #writers




But I did not want to be good. I wanted to be a writer. ↗


— Isabel Huggan


#writing #writing-life #home

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗


— P.G. Wodehouse


#writers #humor

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter. ↗


— Rick Bragg


#sportswriters #writing #imagination

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of. ↗


— Anne Lamott


#writing #writing-advice #life

Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing? ↗


— Julian Barnes


#living #readers #writers #life

The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can. ↗


— Julian Barnes


#writers #writing #life

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it ↗


— Karl Popper


#end #finish #learning #letting-go #the-end

Rich will be my life if I can keep my memories full and brimming, and record them on clear-eyed mornings while I set joyously to work setting pen to holy craft. ↗


— Roman Payne


#life #memories #novel-writing #novelist #payne

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza! ↗


— Roman Payne


#ibiza #libraries #lifestyle #literary #literary-life

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me. ↗


— Emma Thompson


#filming #movies #writers #movies






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