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Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut

Freedom, Nothing, Perfect

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
Andy Rooney

Writers, Retire

A writer's job is to tell the truth.
Andy Rooney

Truth, Job, Tell

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler Yeats

Great, Heart, Christian

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer.
Chuck Palahniuk

Find, Almost, Stuff

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.
Harvey Fierstein

Home, Today, Lovely

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
Samuel Butler

Time, Same, Knew

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
Roald Dahl

Writing, Different, Two

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Anatole Broyard

Peace, Greater, Punishment

You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
Paul Simon

Humble, Find, Place

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Gore Vidal

Great, America, Goes

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
James A. Baldwin

Nothing, Against, Talent

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin

Time, Greed, Everything

The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
Joseph Stalin

Human, Soul, Engineer

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
James A. Baldwin

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
Quentin Tarantino

Truth, Saying, Here

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
E. M. Forster

Evil, Sense, Goodness

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
Stephen King

Actually, Space, Interested

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
Graham Greene

Great, Everything, Boring

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
Stephen King

Two, Others, Around

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl Sandburg

After, Try, Luck

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
Carl Sandburg

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wise, Idea, Youth

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster

Good, Two, Before

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen King

Change, Talent, Whether

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Good, Story, Mankind

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Anton Chekhov

Dealer, Cosmetic

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen King

Change, Smart, Talent

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.
Stephen King

Life, Working, Start

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