A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied he is content.
I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had time to make it shorter.
Our society like decadent Rome has turned into an amusement society with writers chief among the court jesters - not so much above the clatter as part of it.
A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrep...
Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.
I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find his epics on the shelf of such an unimaginable being as myself, in the middle...
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Mid...
There was, in my view, an unwritten contract with the reader that the writer must honour. No single element of an imagined world or any of its characters should be allowed to dissolve on an authorial...
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander. We build this place with the sand of memories;...
Writers write while dreamers procastinate.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilisation from destroying itself.", September 14, 1958)
The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.
You can only write well ,what you have lived.
Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are.
Every sacred soul must walk and keep the way of God in the wilderness for years, to begin the sacred writings.
We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in our own lives...
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
Sadly, there are writers who wouldn't know an umlaut from an omelet.
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