How become a writer? Naturally.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

— Drake

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.

— Kevin Kwan

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

— Edward Abbey

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

— Stephen King

“Personal trainers and writers don't end up in history books.”

— Caspar Vega

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

— Rose Tremain

“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.”

— Christopher D. Votey

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro