#writers

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington. ↗

— David Frum

#group #more #other #people #speech

Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#characters #dreams #female #general #i

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#become #difficult #face #having #i

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#accommodate #edges #give #group #most

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#liars #memories #writers

Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a conscious recording of the day’s experiences ‘freshly and with the appearance of reality’… The writer of imagination would find himself released from observing things for the purpose of writing them down later. He would be there to enjoy, to taste, to engage the free world, not a world which he carries like a bag of food, always fearful lest he drop something or someone get more than he. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#experience

We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us with desires... That is the value of reading and is also its inadequacy. To make it into discipline is to give too large a role to what is only an incitement. Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life it can introduce us to it: it does not constitute it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life

That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it – just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#genius #literature #style #writers #writing

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves. ↗

— Roy Blount Jr.

#life