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Quotes about writers
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To write simply is as difficult as to be good. (Carradine Keith)
A good rule for writers: Do not explain overmuch. (Carradine Keith)
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knowswhat they are. (Carradine Keith)
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. (Carradine Keith)
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I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. (Carradine Keith)
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true. (Carradine Keith)
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write. (Carradine Keith)
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. (Carradine Keith)
A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past. (Carradine Keith)
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader. (Carradine Keith)
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. (Carradine Keith)
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. (Carradine Keith)
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. (Carradine Keith)
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. (Carradine Keith)
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others. (Carradine Keith)
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. (Carradine Keith)
The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story. (Carradine Keith)
"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. (Carradine Keith)
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents. (Carradine Keith)
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. (Carradine Keith)
I wrote a thousand words every day. (Carradine Keith)
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. (Carradine Keith)
Write what you like; there is no other rule. (Carradine Keith)
In America, only the successful writer is important, in France all writers
are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have
to explain what a writer is.
- - - Geoffrey Cottrell (Carradine Keith)
There's a wonderful humanness to it. The writer is a genius. I guess he knew his subject, the Eastern establishment. (Carradine Keith)
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