The only
thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my
suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't
require any. - Russell Baker
Unless a
writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a
neglected institution, his death must always be seen as untimely. This is
because a real writer is always shifting and changing and searching. The world
has many labels for him, of which the most treacherous is the label of Success. - James Baldwin
If the
artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis
flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the
enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on
whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties
instead of overcoming them one by one...he is simply looking on at the suicide
of his own talent. - Honore de Balzac
It took me
fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it
up because by that time I was too famous- Robert Benchley
Why do
writers write? Because it isn't there.
He was such
a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.- Milton Berle
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