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It is a sad feature of modern life that only women for...

It is a sad feature of modern life that only women for the most part have time to write novels, and they seldom have much to write about.

Quote by Auberon Alexander Waugh about literature, time, life

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast...

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature; only then can he see clearly.

Quote by Julian Patrick Barnes about writers, nature

Every genuine writer has a voice of his own - an inward voice that stems from his temperament as well as from experience. The experienced teacher listens to that voice, helps bring it out.

Quote by Albert Joseph Guerard about teachers, voice, writers, experience

Never, until now, in old age, the thingshappenedas I wanted. Always something hadoccurredthat deviated my path. I enrolled in high school because I wanted to attend the faculty of Arts in Baia Mare, but exactly in the year when I had to sustain...

Quote by Augustin Buzura about destiny, school, tests, olderness, art, writers, age, old, being

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of...

Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness

Quote by Otto von Bismarck about war, politeness, rules

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Quote by Otto von Bismarck about politics, history, things

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about poetry, recollection, nature, memory, imagination, poets

Many people- and I think I am one of them-are more productive when they have had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

Quote by David Ogilvy about humor, drinking, people

Do no at any account attempt to write on both sides of...

Do no at any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

WQuote by W. C. Sellar about philosophy

We write in water.

We write in water.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy, water

Every so often I'd be able to write a scene with greater...

Every so often I'd be able to write a scene with greater flourish because I'd gotten lucky with my words as I was writing them down, but no surprises.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writing, word

I wish I knew how to imagine a short story, because I...

I wish I knew how to imagine a short story, because I rather like the form, but they're too time-consuming for me to write on a regular basis.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about wish, time

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of...

I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about books

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, books, writing, common sense, sense, god

In the process of defending the integrity of my story, I would clean up the structural problems without focusing on them. I've used it myself with the writers I've mentored.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about integrity, writers, problems

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, faith, good, good luck

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me...

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about faith

There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet...

There's a lot of hearsay and worse out on the Internet and, though I write fiction, I like to think that my background information is solid.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about fiction, internet

To feel free enough to write at all, I have to give my...

To feel free enough to write at all, I have to give my research a twist that allows me to say, Okay, this is NOT 12th century France.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about research

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to...

What this book demands from a reader is a willingness to accept that the best writer in America could write almost nothing but record reviews.

Quote by Lester Bangs about writers, nothing

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