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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27. About eleven minutes later he was writing his own music. — Ron David

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
[on James Joyce's Ulysses] — Virginia Woolf

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. — Christopher Paolini

When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear. — Don DeLillo

Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper. — Eveli Acosta

What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone. — Thomas Hood

I like to think of myself as a fiction writer who liked art enough to write about it for a while, and then went on to his fiction. — Tom Robbins

writing those lines in his small kitchen, the light wet on the oilskin tablecloth, the night close against the window. — Helen Macdonald

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land. — Aldo Leopold

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

Good. Coffee is good for you. It's the caffeine in it. Caffeine, we are here. Caffeine puts a man on her horse and a woman in his grave. — Ernest Hemingway,

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own. — Nancy Gibbs

Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King. — Duane Swierczynski

All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist. — Charles Beaumont

Get thee behind me, tragedy. Kneeling over her, he lifted her and impaled her gently on his sex. — Anne Rice

Writing by the seat of your pants is like a director turning on the camera and telling his/her actors to do something. — Beem Weeks

The writer, his eye on the finish line, never gave enough thought to how to run the race. — William Zinsser

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart. — Tennessee Williams

When you have a single composer writing his work, it shouldn't be doled out in singles based on the length of a piece. — Gail Zappa

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. — Billy Wilder

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. — W. Somerset Maugham

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. — Rick Anderson

He wanted his articles to be, not infinite exactly, but big enough to suggest infinitude. — Garth Risk Hallberg

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics — Henry Rollins

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind. — H.W. Brands

The man is in his work,read it if you want to know about him. — R.M. Engelhardt

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone. — Oscar Wilde

You must all know about Bourgain, so I don't have to write his name on the board-for an obvious reason. — Endre Szemeredi

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized. — Thomas Moore

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. — Douglas William Jerrold

But every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood. — Betsy Lerner

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. — Raymond Chandler

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious. — Ray Bradbury

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades. — Lauren Groff

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on. — Ernest Hemingway,

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. — Dorothy Parker

If everyone took his pen and wrote just anything that came on his mind, we would greatly help researchers to understand how our minds work — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image. — George Whitefield

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader ... — Owen Wister

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. — Robert Benchley