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“You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences”
Anatole France quotes (French Writer, member of the French Academy and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, 1844-1924)
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“The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.”
John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)
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“When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it”
Anatole France quotes (French Writer, member of the French Academy and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, 1844-1924)
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“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 quotes (German political Philosopher and revolutionary, 1818-1883)
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“America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments”
Anatole France quotes (French Writer, member of the French Academy and Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921, 1844-1924)
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“A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it. He must always be a stranger to the place he loves, and its people.”
William Morris quotes (British craftsman, early Socialist, Designer and Poet, whose designs generated the Arts and Crafts Movement in England. 1834-1896)
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“The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.”
William Faulkner quotes (American short-story Writer and Novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, 1897-1962)
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“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”
Toni Morrison quotes (American Writer, Teacher and Editor. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1993, b.1931)
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“Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.”
Rod Sterling quotes (American Producer, Host and Writer, for The Twilight Zone, 1924-1975)
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“A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard-by stealing what he has a taste for and can carry off.”
Archibald MacLeish quotes (American Poet and Critic. 1892-1982)
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