#writers

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#creative-process #struggle #writers #writing #authority

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#fiction #gender #on-fiction #problems #women

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#writers #writing #fame

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#accounting #base #because #books #culinary

I think my fascination is less with genre figures than with writers in general. ↗

— Eric Brown

#figures #general #genre #i #i think

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#compulsion #every #obedient #polite #put

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#changes #chaos #condition #course #indefinitely

I do not write by any set time schedule. I realize there are many writers who follow a daily regime where they arise at 6:00 a.m., do some sort of exercise, eat breakfast and then sit down and produce words for a three to four hour period. ↗

— Donald McKay

#arise #breakfast #daily #down #eat

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. ↗

— John Metcalf

#approach #become #committed #excellence #gathering