Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. — Louise Erdrich
Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I… — Annika Sorenstam
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a… — Unknown Author
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. — Hugo Gernsback
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that… — Leonard Bishop
There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published. — J.A. Konrath
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner
God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing… — Will Allison
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to… — Jean-Paul Sartre
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into… — John Green
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
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
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have… — Isaac Asimov
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs. — Gerald Brenan
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It… — Maya Angelou
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It… — Elliot Perlman
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. — Thomas Keneally
It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that… — Joy Harjo

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