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Quotes about writers
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To write simply is as difficult as to be good. (Banks Leslie)
A good rule for writers: Do not explain overmuch. (Banks Leslie)
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are. (Banks Leslie)
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. (Banks Leslie)
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. (Banks Leslie)
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. (Banks Leslie)
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. (Banks Leslie)
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. (Banks Leslie)
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. (Banks Leslie)
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. (Banks Leslie)
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. (Banks Leslie)
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. (Banks Leslie)
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. (Banks Leslie)
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. (Banks Leslie)
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. (Banks Leslie)
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. (Banks Leslie)
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. (Banks Leslie)
"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. (Banks Leslie)
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. (Banks Leslie)
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. (Banks Leslie)
I wrote a thousand words every day. (Banks Leslie)
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. (Banks Leslie)
Write what you like; there is no other rule. (Banks Leslie)
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers
are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have
to explain what a writer is.
- - - Geoffrey Cottrell (Banks Leslie)
There's a wonderful humanness to it. The writer is a genius. I guess he knew his subject, the Eastern establishment. (Banks Leslie)
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