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• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

  Edith Sitwell

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• That’s not writing, that’s typing.

  Truman Capote

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• I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

  Washington Irving

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• Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

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• For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written … she is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up. While they were a-growing she was passionately interested in them but now they seem hardly to belong to her – and probably she is involved with another batch of kittens as I am involved with other writing.

  Rumer Godden

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• I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn’t. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

  Henry Miller

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• The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

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• If we try to envisage an ‘average Canadian writer’ we can see him living near a campus, teaching at least part-time at university level, mingling too much for his work’s good with academics, doing as much writing as he can for the CBC, and always hoping for a Canada Council Fellowship.

  George Woodcock

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• There should be two main objectives in ordinary prose writing: to convey a message and to include in it nothing that will distract the reader’s attention or check his habitual pace of reading – he should feel that he is seated at ease in a taxi, not riding a temperamental horse through traffic.

  Robert Graves

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• Writers should be read – but neither seen nor heard.

  Daphne du Maurier

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• The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.

  Ernest Hemingway

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• There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

  Joan Didion

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• Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so.

  Northrop Frye

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• I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

  A. J. Liebling

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• The truth is, we’ve not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult, the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.

  Saul Bellow

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• Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.

  J. P. Donleavy

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• Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

  Georges Simenon

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• What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

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• To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

  Albert Camus

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