Quotes with co-writer

Quotes 201 till 220 of 271.

  • Cyril Connolly The more books we read, the sooner we perceive that the true function of the writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.
    The Unquiet Grave (1944)
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Billy Collins The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Leo Rosten The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Russell Baker The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
    Russell Baker
    American journalist (1925 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Winston Churchill 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
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • James Baldwin The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Anais Nin The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Augusten Burroughs The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Anne McCaffrey The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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  • Sydney Smith The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Aharon Appelfeld The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
    Aharon Appelfeld
    Israeli writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Joan Didion The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Susan Sontag The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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