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Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long, nor keep ardent typing fingers still.


Roman Payne


#fathers #husbands #liars #lovers #lying

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.


Vladimir Nabokov


#fame #lolita #names #obscure #writers

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.


David Leavitt


#leavitt #quote #writer #censorship

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!


Jackie Collins


#writing #writers-on-writing

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.


Ernest Hemingway


#propaganda #war #writers #wwi #propaganda

When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.


C. JoyBell C.


#fakery #having-many-faces #hypocrisy #hypocrites #more-than-one-face

I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE A HIGHLIGHTER IN MY BOOKS,


John Green


#books #fiction #highlighter #reading-readers-writers #writing

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.


Anne Lamott


#publish #publishing #reward #tea #writer

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.


Neil Gaiman


#readers #stories #write #growing-up

Don't tell me the moon is shining, show me the glint of light on broken glass.


Bernard Cornwell


#readers-and-writers #writing-craft #writing-craft






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