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“The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none”
François R. Chateaubriand quotes (French author and diplomat, 1768-1848)
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“When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.”
Alfred Kazin quotes
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“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough”
William Saroyan quotes (American Writer known for his stories celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty. 1908-1981)
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“But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.”
Maria Lenhart quotes
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“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.”
Leo Rosten quotes (Polish born American comic Novelist, He is best known for his humorous works and character Hyman Kaplan. 1908-1997)
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“A writer's problem does not change. It is always how to write truly and having found out what is true to project it in such a way that it becomes part of the experience of the person who reads it.”
Ernest Hemingway quotes (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)
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“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”
Karl Marx quotes (German political Philosopher and revolutionary, 1818-1883)
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“The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.”
Graham Greene quotes (English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, 1904-1991)
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“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning”
Peter De Vries quotes (American comic visionary, Editor, Novelist, Satirist and Linguist. 1910-1993)
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“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”
Elia Kazan quotes
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