Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Miloš Urošević, as quoted in May '92 (2012) p.19
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Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
"The Shadowland of Dreams"', published in Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work (1996) by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Maida Rogerson, Martin Rutte and Tim Clauss; also in Alex Haley : The Man Who Traced America's Roots (2007), a collection of stories and essays by Haley published in Reader's Digest between 1954 to 1991.
Context: Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer.”
The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.
“Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
Renata Adler (1938) American author, journalist and film critic
Source: Speedboat
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Frankfurt Book Fair speech (2003)
“1) Writers who write for other writers should write letters.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
Niven's Laws, Niven's Laws For Writers
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: Time Cat
Dany Laferrière (1953) Haitian Canadian novelist and journalist
On how he became a writer in “An Interview with Dany Laferrière” https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/an-interview-with-dany-laferriere-jessie-chaffee (WWB Daily, 2016)