Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

Dostoevsky is such a bad writer it is hard to take him seriously as a novelist, though he is a wonderful philosopher. — John Banville
I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written. — John Banville
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I… — Roseanne Barr
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are… — Scott Adams
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. — Simone de Beauvoir
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such… — Joseph Addison
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into… — William Bernbach
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. — Robert Benchley
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. — Josh Billings
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. — Jim Bishop
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. — Lewis Black
I'm a writer. An amateur photographer. An actor. — Ben Affleck
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare. — Alain de Botton
I wasn't that great a chef, and I don't think I'm that great a writer. — Anthony Bourdain
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them… — Anthony Bourdain
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as… — Anthony Bourdain
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. — Elizabeth Bowen
You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for… — Garth Brooks
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language. — Joseph Brodsky
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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