I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced…

I had a crazy amount of success as a writer, which isn't normal by any means.

— Stephanie Land

“A writer who isn't writing isn't really alive.”

— Robin McKinley

I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?

— Kurt Vonnegut

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones…

— Greg Egan

“A writer isn’t a writer because he has a membership card but because he writes. How do you know what bright ideas may not…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

— E. L. Doctorow

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good…

— William Monahan

The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?

— Philip Roth

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference…

— Suzanne Collins

Everything is possible for the writer. There isn’t anything anyone can tell you that you can’t do, and there is no such thing as…

— Kyle Minor

“The job of the writer isn't to answer questions. The job of the writer is to ask the questions for which there are no…

— Jens Porup

“It isn’t the pen—it’s the writer; it isn’t the road—it’s the runner that counts.”

— Dr. Shad Helmstetter

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

— Ernest Hemingway

“What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr