One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.” — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
It's not for the writer to say whether the thing is successful or not. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I” — Jeff Goins Copy Share Image
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten… — Holly Lisle Copy Share Image
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I don't think the function of writing, at least for me as a fiction writer, is to say to people, "Here's the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.'… — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
“Your job as a writer is to say as truthfully as you can what you see and how you feel. Writing is… — Danelle Morton Copy Share Image
“I recently heard a great writer say that an essential element in the life of a writer is to have been an… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“I have three younger siblings, and used to tell them an awful lot of lies when they were growing up. The best… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“A lifetime's experience urges me to utter a warning cry: do anything else, take someone's golden retriever for a walk, run away… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded. This is how writers… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
You can call someone a lousy writer. You can say you hate their book. You can even call a person 'white trash'… — Carole Radziwill Copy Share Image
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that's what, to me, also talks about the silences in my work - as a woman, a woman writer, when… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
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