1.) ”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
2.) ”When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain...”. E. B. White
3.) ”Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.”. James A. Michener
4.) ”At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every post-Classical Author. Then they classified them by eras, the Augustans, the Victorians, etc., and now they classify them by decades, the writers of the '30's, '40's, etc. Very soon, it seems, they will be labeling authors, like automobiles, by the year.”. W. H. Auden
5.) ”writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”. Isaac Asimov
6.) ”The modern observations deprive all former writers of any authority, since if they had seen what we see, they would have judged as we judge.”. Galileo Galilei
7.) ”1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.”. Larry Niven
8.) ”All those writers who write about their own childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.”. Dorothy Parker
9.) ”We Americans have yet to really learn our own antecedents, and sort them, to unify them. They will be found ampler than has been supposed, and in widely different sources. Thus far, impress'd by New England writers and schoolmasters, we tacitly abandon ourselves to the notion that our United States has been fashion'd from the British Islands only, and essentially form a second England only — which is a very great mistake.”. Walt Whitman
10.) ”Some one said: "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know.”. T. S. Eliot
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