#write

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#publishers #rush #translators #tread #where

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#arrogant #creatures #early #god-like #i

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#become #better #travel #writer #writing

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. ↗

— Tim Cahill

#i #loves #somebody #still #travel

My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#am #because #day #doing #every

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer. ↗

— Bruce Campbell

#any #end #how #react #scene

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. ↗

— Albert Camus

#commentators #readers #those #who #write

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#contain #down #ever #every #heard

So to the wretched writer I should like to say that there’s one body only whose request for your caresses is not vulgar, is not unchaste, untoward, or impolite: the body of your work itself; for you must remember that your attentions will not merely celebrate a beauty but create one; that yours is love that brings it own birth with it, just as Plato has declared, and that you should therefore give up the blue things of this world in favor of the words which say them ↗

— William H. Gass

#writing #beauty

Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#first #ground #ideas #important #magazines