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WritersThe 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.
Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to have his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
What we really needed were a few more English majors to write the instructions.
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.
Technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers....
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.
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.
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.
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.
Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts.
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.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
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