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Quotes about writers and writing
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Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? (Combs Jeffrey)
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. (Combs Jeffrey)
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. (Combs Jeffrey)
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market. (Combs Jeffrey)
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I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. (Combs Jeffrey)
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases -- threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible. (Combs Jeffrey)
Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally. (Combs Jeffrey)
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. (Combs Jeffrey)
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. (Combs Jeffrey)
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. (Combs Jeffrey)
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. (Combs Jeffrey)
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. (Combs Jeffrey)
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. (Combs Jeffrey)
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it. (Combs Jeffrey)
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. (Combs Jeffrey)
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them. (Combs Jeffrey)
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. (Combs Jeffrey)
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. (Combs Jeffrey)
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. (Combs Jeffrey)
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. (Combs Jeffrey)
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. (Combs Jeffrey)
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. (Combs Jeffrey)
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. (Combs Jeffrey)
Easy writings curse is hard reading. (Combs Jeffrey)
Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. (Combs Jeffrey)
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