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Quotes about writers
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To write simply is as difficult as to be good. (Aldiss Brian)
A good rule for writers: Do not explain overmuch. (Aldiss Brian)
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are. (Aldiss Brian)
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. (Aldiss Brian)
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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. (Aldiss Brian)
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. (Aldiss Brian)
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. (Aldiss Brian)
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. (Aldiss Brian)
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. (Aldiss Brian)
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. (Aldiss Brian)
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. (Aldiss Brian)
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. (Aldiss Brian)
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. (Aldiss Brian)
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. (Aldiss Brian)
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. (Aldiss Brian)
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. (Aldiss Brian)
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. (Aldiss Brian)
"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. (Aldiss Brian)
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. (Aldiss Brian)
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. (Aldiss Brian)
I wrote a thousand words every day. (Aldiss Brian)
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. (Aldiss Brian)
Write what you like; there is no other rule. (Aldiss Brian)
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 (Aldiss Brian)
There's a wonderful humanness to it. The writer is a genius. I guess he knew his subject, the Eastern establishment. (Aldiss Brian)
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