Every Writer Quotes

93 quotes by 86 authors

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. — John le Carre
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The… — Julian Coolidge
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,… — Samuel Johnson
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. — John Scalzi
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.… — Peter Straub
It is called working your ass off. The difference is what you are willing to sacrifice. For every writer who wants balance in their life,… — Mark Cuban
It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and… — Trey Parker
Every writer has his favorite coterie of enemies: Mine is the East Coast literati -- those prep school playmates and their Ivy League colleagues. — Edward Abbey
Every writer making a secondary world wishes in some measure to be a real maker, or hopes that he is drawing on reality: hopes that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them,… — Holly Lisle
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has… — Jonathan Lethem
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or… — Paul Robeson
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work — Donna Tartt
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that… — Nora Roberts
Every writer has to find their own way into writing. — Margaret Mahy
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every… — Heather O'Neill
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. — Dario Argento

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