I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing. — David Milch Copy Share Image
I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I like to think each writer is doing his or her part. Feeding the lake, as Jean Rhys said. And maybe there… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to. — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well. — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone. — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“I think a writer should always be surprised; and the more I write, the more it seems that the language itself, when… — Ciaran Carson Copy Share Image
I learned to write from reading. I had no writing classes. It's part of my thinking as the writer-author, reading, but then… — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I think that as a writer your responsibility is to search for and stir up the things that are in this world.… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a fellow writer who was asked by a student,… — Stanley Fish Copy Share Image
“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“You’d think that, for a writer, you’d retire the same old phrase after the second use.” — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time.… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.” — Shay Youngblood Copy Share Image
Writing for me is definitely a form of ventilation - a way for me to cope and deal with emotions. I think… — Crystal Bowersox Copy Share Image
