writers quotes

• A good rule for writers: Do not explain overmuch. (William Somerset Maugham) [writers]
• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. (Wystan Auden) [writers]
• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like. (Walter Benjamin) [books/method/writers/people]
• There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work. (Aleister Crowley) [writers/more/money/more]
• I suppose some editors are failed writers; but so are most writers. (Thomas Eliot) [writers/writers]
• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (Thomas Eliot) [writers/writers]
• As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. (Oliver Goldsmith) [writers/more/more/desire]
• How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him. (Ernest Hemingway) [literature/writers/past/past]
• All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness. (Ernest Hemingway) [willpower/politics/writers/change]
• Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [writers/influence/more]
• It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief. (Samuel Johnson) [more/right/writers]
• Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [truth/writers/harvest]
• The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. (William Somerset Maugham) [writers]
• All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. (George Orwell) [writers/thing]
• Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. (Octavio Paz) [writers/society]
• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. (Ezra Pound) [literature/writers/ability/writers]
• Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. (Ezra Pound) [writers/language]
• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. (Salman Rushdie) [writers/politicians/fight]
• Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. (Mark Twain) [writers/shame]
• Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. (Mark Twain) [writers/truth]
• Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. (Gore Vidal) [writers/take//take]
• Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made. (Gore Vidal) [writers/virtue/time/literature]
• There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies. (Simone Weil) [power/truth/writers/genius]
• It's a marvellous life, a gregarious life that we've had. We're very lucky in that way. Unlike writers or painters, we don't sit down in front of a blank canvas and say, 'How do I start? Where do I start?' (Albert Finney) [life/life/writers/painters]
• Hollywood doesn't let authors, writers, exploit and deliver their talents and imaginations. It has to go through the mill. (Bela Lugosi) [writers]
• Why would they have gone to the trouble to hire the best comedy writers in the business to write funny material for us to play straight, if the children in our audience were the only audience. (Burt Ward) [writers/business]
• There's just sort of this assumption that whatever . . .the writers come up with. (Hugh Laurie) [writers]
• You know, all writers are vampires and ... they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in. (James Gandolfini) [writers/look/watch/thinking]
• These are the nicest people. From the producers and writers on down. The actors are just wonderful. ...They take care of the old man. (James Garner) [people/writers/actors/take]
• Brought the tone, and he brought it hard and fast. He picked up and carried Sunset, which was really a small film, and made this popcorn piece. It was kind of wobbly for a while. God, there were times I was cursing him out, cursing the writers out. I don't like it when it gets shaky like that. (Pierce Brosnan) [film/god/writers]
• But I do want to talk about it because the policies of the Writers Guild are absolutely arcane. Vicious, I would say. They are so hateful of the idea of an auteur. They just hate it, for whatever reason. (Stanley Tucci) [writers]

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