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The writer, the readers, and the world -
While maybe not always lovin' it, the writer needs to stay lit - by passion, by indignation, by unquenchable inner forces, by a thirst for justice, the determination to make it come out all right - Witness for litness!
If I try to write for the common reader, the results are wooden and nobody wants to print them at all; if I follow my own peculiar humor, the books have a sales chart that goes up, and goes down, but eventually finds a loyal audience.
.....................................................Robert Anton WilsonMeeting people, receiving a large number of letters and invitations, and feeling under an obligation to reply to them, these are perhaps greater dangers to the writer than debauchery.
............................................................ Stephen SpenderGiven the choice, a writer, if sincere, would rather see his book thrown into the trash can with irate conviction than politely relegated, with gentle oblivion, to the shelves of infinite boredom.
...................................................... F. Gonzalez-CrussiI must say that even today I still experience the same astonishment and gratitude whenever I see adults delivering words I have written, however funny or not, profound or not, in front of a supposedly adult audience, or one which has at least gone out of its way and paid a small fortune to hear them.
........................................................ Francoise SaganIt is my belief that no writer can improve his work until he discards the dulcet notion that the reader is feebleminded - a writer who questions the capacity of the person at the other end of the line is not a writer at all, merely a schemer.
...................................................................... E. B. WhiteUnless I'm writing on assignment for a publication with a well-defined audience, I usually figure I'm writing for intelligent, articulate readers who probably don't initially agree with me or share my enthusiasms. Preaching to the unconverted keeps a writer lean, mean and honest.
.................................................................... John CalderazzoThe writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless, if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board - honor, pride, decency, security, happiness - all - to get the book written.
..................................................................William FaulknerAny writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
.................................................................James Baldwin
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