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“Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.”
Edna Ferber quotes (American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright 1887-1968)
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“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 quotes (American Writer, 1902-1958)
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“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Sterling quotes (American Producer, Host and Writer, for The Twilight Zone, 1924-1975)
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“His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.”
Anatole Broyard quotes
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“Choose an author as you choose a friend.”
Arthur Helps quotes (English Historian and Novelist, 1813-1875)
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“Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
Mel Brooks quotes (American Actor, Writer, Producer and Film Director. b.1926 Brooklyn, New York, USA)
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“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”
Marcel Proust quotes (French Novelist and Author, 1871-1922)
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“The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.”
Maria Lenhart quotes
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“They say great themes make great novels.. but what these young writers don't understand is that there is no greater theme than men and women.”
John O'Hara quotes
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“The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.”
George V. Higgins quotes (American Writer, 1939-1999)
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