Writer Quotes · Page 29

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

— Diablo Cody

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking…

— Eleanor Catton

I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

— Amitava Kumar

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

— Maya Angelou

“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.”

— robert m drake

My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the…

— Jakob Dylan

“Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

— Joseph Brodsky

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have…

— Candice Millard

“I write because sometimes I feel I cannot breathe...until I do.”

— Karris Callahan

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

— Bella Freud

A literary journal is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate.

— Anonymous

The idea of writer's block or not having inspiration is totally terrifying to me.

— Paul Dano

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.

— James Lasdun

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

— Walter Kirn

I was a terrible writer at first.

— Gabby Barrett

“The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest…

— Marcus Speh

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

My dream was, and always had been, to write a book. To be a writer.

— Deb Caletti

George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.

— Atul Gawande

As a writer, its important to stay true to your story without giving a hoot about publishers, critics and readers. You should…

— Amish Tripathi

“Most people do a good deal of whatever they do motivated by love. For me, few stories are truly complete without it.”

— Sara Sheridan

“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are…

— Suzy Kassem

No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.

— John Boyle O'Reilly