Showing posts with label writer quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writer quotes. Show all posts
"The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it." - Ernest Hemingway, interview in Paris Review, Spring 1958
"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can." - Samuel Lover, Handy Andy, 1842
"I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all."- Richard Wright, American Hunger, 1977
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