The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
I'm a writer who never writes about sex. It's so far from my own fictional world. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“No one can teach you how to write. A writer writes, plain and simple. You improve by doing.” — Scott Ciencin Copy Share Image
Every fiction writer writes around the thing they will never say. Thats what fiction writers do — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer… — Jamie Weise Copy Share Image
I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them,… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice… — Stanley Ellin Copy Share Image
The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to… — Leo C Rosten Copy Share Image
“If a writer writes something that he or she has never experienced, I think the reader can sense right away that it… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“It has suddenly occurred to me to write out word for word all that has happened to me during this last year,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve — hopelessly he writes in the hope that he might serve —… — Joy Williams Copy Share Image
My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Just as a painter paints, and a ponderer ponders, a writer writes, and a wanderer wanders.” — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Look, anything any writer writes is going to be on some level autobiographical. Part of the funny/sad thing is that you don't… — Raphael Bob-Waksberg Copy Share Image
“It is the devious writer indeed who writes in such a way that the critic who finds himself unresponsive to the writer's… — Tom Bissell Copy Share Image
As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
