Quotes about writing
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The writer’s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Ring Lardner1885–1933Preface to How to Write Short Stories (1924)If I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.
Stephen Kingborn 1947Danse Macabre (1981), p. 37You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow1915–2005Nobel Prize lecture (12 December 1976)Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Every author should weigh his work and ask, ‘Will humanity gain any benefit from it?’
For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
- IDIsaac D'Israeli1766–1848Literary Miscellanies, Style.
