Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Quote by Gore Vida

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Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of...

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of...

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man...

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than...

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew,...

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew,...

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from...

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from...

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue....

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue....

From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously...

From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously...

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader...

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader...

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The...

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to...

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

I work until beer oclock.

I work until beer oclock.

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad...

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself...

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself...

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem...

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem...