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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

Fear, Sometimes, Sense

Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou

Heart, After, Write

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Friends, Spirit

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Best, Become, Ashamed

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
Robert Frost

Surprise, Tears, Reader

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
Robert Frost

Forward, Mind, Saying

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin

Art, Meaning, Perception

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost

Understand, Talk, Learn

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
Robert Frost

True, Reader, Ear

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Ernest Hemingway

Writing, May, Enough

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
Ernest Hemingway

Character, Writing, Living

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
Anais Nin

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Ernest Hemingway

May, Serious, Bloody

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
Ernest Hemingway

Great, Rather, Write

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Good, Book

If you wish to be a writer, write.
Epictetus

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
Karl Marx

Money, Live, Able

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
Paulo Coelho

Become, Dream, Since

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Paulo Coelho

Death, Parents, Career

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell

Truth, Emotional, Important

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein

Eyes, Write, Paint

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White

Work, Else, Write

Everybody I know is a joke writer.
Ron White

Joke, Everybody

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf

Life, Experience, Mind

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

History, May, Cannot

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White

Good, True, Someone

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

Work, Book, Makes

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Greatest, Book

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph Addison

True, Rather, Worth

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