William Shawn
Author: cwq
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.”
Voltaire
“Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.”
Samuel Johnson
“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out.”
Hortense Calisher
“I believe if you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they’ll be in the right place. The story will come from the landscape.”
Annie Proulx
“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”
Peter De Vries
“Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.”
Stanislaw J. Lec
“Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.”
Diane Wakoski