Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer because it's the only apprenticeship we have,… — John Green
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest… — John Green
The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be… — Henry Watson Fowler
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. — Burton Rascoe
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer. — Kurt Vonnegut
No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories. — David Foster Wallace
The writer's duty is to keep on writing. — William Styron
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way)… — Elmore Leonard
When I was 8, I was reading a book in which it was snowing. When I looked outside, I expected there to be snow on… — Candace Bushnell
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a writer… — Trenton Lee Stewart
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police… — Stephen King
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the… — Louis L'Amour
Every novel is an equal collaboration between the writer and the reader and it is the only place in the world where two strangers can… — Paul Auster
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated. — Jorge Luis Borges
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.… — Jorge Luis Borges
Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be… — David Brin
A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted… — David Brooks
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind,… — Erskine Caldwell
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching. — Morley Callaghan
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't… — Truman Capote
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is,… — Lawrence Clark Powell

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