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The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
-- Leo Rosten

If you were a member of Jesse James's band and people asked you what you were, you wouldn't say 'Well, I'm a desperado.' You'd say something like, 'I work in banks,' or 'I've done some railroad work.' It took me a long time just to say 'I'm a writer.' It's really embarrassing.
-- Roy Blount, Jr.

Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."
-- Unknown (but probably not A.A. Milne)

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
-- Russell Lynes

Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to have his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
-- Benjamin Franklin

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
-- Thomas Berger

What we really needed were a few more English majors to write the instructions.
-- Michael Collins, Apollo 11 astronaut

You manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson

Technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers....
-- Kurt Vonnegut

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think that the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor

The excellent tribe of grammarians, the precisians and all others who strive to be correct and correctors, have as much power to prohibit a single word or phrase as a gray squirrel has to put out Orion with a flicker of its tail.
-- The New York Sun, cited by H.L. Mencken, 1963

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
-- Anatole France

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts.
-- Winston Churchill

One writer excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.
-- Oliver Goldsmith

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
-- Guy Davenport


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