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The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Robertson Davies

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Kraus

A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.

Clifton Fadiman

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

Thomas Wolfe

Every writer, without exception, is a masochist, a sadist, a peeping Tom, an exhibitionist, a narcissist, an injustice collector and a depressed person constantly haunted by fears of unproductivity.

Edmund Bergler

The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you.

Samuel Johnson

Writers are the engineers of human souls.

Joseph Stalin

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

T. S. Eliot

Writers should be read - but neither seen nor heard.

Daphne du Maurier

The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

Ernest Hemingway

There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

Joan Didion

An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.

Margaret Anderson

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Robert Frost

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.

Irvin S. Cobb

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

Wolcott Gibbs

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.

Archibald MacLeish

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly

Julian Barnes

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Salman Rushdie

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

John Steinbeck

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Updike

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

W. H. Auden

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none

FranÁois R. Chateaubriand

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