Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's…

I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

— Horton Foote

“Every story is an act of trust between a writer and a reader: each story, in the end, is social. Whatever a writer sets…

— Barry Lopez

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

— Jay Asher

“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?”

— Jim Power

“If being a writer doesn't make you humble, nothing else will." ~ Verge Le Noir”

— Verge LeNoir

A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation.

— Don Winslow

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene

“[The writer] doesn't want a new world which might be established immediately, because he knows it would never suit him. He wants an impossible…

— Henry Miller

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays the bills…

— Andrew Davies

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

— Karin Slaughter

First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave your desk,…

— Terry Pratchett

“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart…

— Sy Safransky

“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say - or there…

— Will Schwalbe