Words, Words, Words

Words, words, words,’ Hamlet Act 2: Scene 2 This quiz uses the words of 18 brilliant writers on the power, pains and pleasures of the tools of their art - words.

Created by Translated by For Reading Addicts on June 14, 2016

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01 An American writer “I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.”

02 An English author who wrote a bestselling trilogy in four parts: “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

03 An American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

04 English children’s author and illustrator: “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”

05 A cavalier American novelist, short story writer, journalist and Nobel Prize Winner: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

06 American novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor Emeritus: “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

07 American author of over 60 novels that have been adapted into some of the most famous films ever: “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”

08 Early c20th English author and feminist “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

09 An American Deep South author, “Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

10 One of the fathers of the English Romantic period: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”

11 Boston born poet, novelist, and short-story writer and wife of Ted Hughes: “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

12 An Irish poet whose wit outlasted his scandalous life: “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

13 English author of a hugely popular fantasy trilogy: “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

14 One of the most famous and witty Englishmen ever: “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

15 A German-born diarist and writer who lived and wrote in Holland: “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

16 A British playwright who was one of the most famous pre-war writers: “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”

17 An English social critic and one of Her greatest novelists: “There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

18 Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic and essayist who has made the Booker Prize shortlist five times: “A word after a word after a word is power.”