Quotes 221 till 240 of 271.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write.
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The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor.
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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989) -
There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.
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There's something exciting about weekly strips in that you're following the way the story reveals itself to the writer week by week. All the possible directions it could have taken are there; it's a kind of participatory reading that I think books discourage.
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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.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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