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Quotes about writers and writing
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Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness. (Combs Jeffrey)
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. (Combs Jeffrey)
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. (Combs Jeffrey)
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. (Combs Jeffrey)
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Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. (Combs Jeffrey)
The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. (Combs Jeffrey)
Writing is the continuation of politics by other means. (Combs Jeffrey)
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. (Combs Jeffrey)
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood. (Combs Jeffrey)
Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals. (Combs Jeffrey)
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (Combs Jeffrey)
The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty. (Combs Jeffrey)
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. (Combs Jeffrey)
O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee. (Combs Jeffrey)
Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places. (Combs Jeffrey)
The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. (Combs Jeffrey)
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. (Combs Jeffrey)
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. (Combs Jeffrey)
Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. (Combs Jeffrey)
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare. (Combs Jeffrey)
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. (Combs Jeffrey)
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats... these are the facts. (Combs Jeffrey)
Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use. (Combs Jeffrey)
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. (Combs Jeffrey)
As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out. (Combs Jeffrey)
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