“If being a writer doesn't make you humble, nothing else will." ~ Verge Le Noir” — Verge LeNoir Copy Share Image
“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write about just anything. He writes about things he has an affinity for. — Antonio Munoz Molina Copy Share Image
When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books… — Augusten Burroughs 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
Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot. — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“If a writer doesn't believe his fictional characters are actually real, how can he expect the readers to?” — Jim Power Copy Share Image
There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had a very high opinion of my father's judgement of things and he said, "You better get a job that pays… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
First of all you are a writer, a writer is what you are, so it doesn't actually stop the moment you leave… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“And if the book is too silly, I find that it's often because the writer doesn't really have anything to say -… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
If you tell an amateur that his story is not good, he always declares indignantly: 'Oh, but it really happened just like… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“[The writer] doesn't want a new world which might be established immediately, because he knows it would never suit him. He wants… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And… — Gustavo Perez Firmat Copy Share Image
“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece… — CK Webb Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
“The writer doesn’t need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper. I’ve never known anything good in writing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I have come to see this fear, this sense of my own imperilment by my creations, as not only an inevitable, necessary… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I rather liked him.I asked him to come and see us.' ‘Oh Christ !’ ‘But, Bradley, you mustn’t reject people,you musn't just… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“So you want to be a writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
A writer who doesn't need the money gains power and is dangerous in a negotiation. — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“Just because I'm a writer doesn't mean that my personal experiences are embellished. Every life has a story.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do. — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of… — William Trevor Copy Share Image
If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image