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Writer quotes
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen quotes (American Writer, 1897-1973)
“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”
Joseph Heller quotes
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)
“The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S’s: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to.”
Lawrence Clark Powell quotes (American Librarian, Writer and Critic, 1906-2001)
“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
“In the middle of the silence in a writer’s house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.”
Richard Eder quotes
“A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
Jessamyn West quotes (American Writer, 1902-1984)