Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,… — Bergen Evans
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is… — Bergen Evans
How to read writers on writing: With respect, amusement, and skepticism. They will contradict one another-as they should-for each writer brings an individual history to… — Donald Murray
The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish… — Neil Gaiman
The... arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, finding things ready-made for a machine to… — Edward Weston
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it… — Arthur Koestler
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating… — Peter Ackroyd
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising… — Russell Lynes
A typical wine writer was once described as someone with a typewriter who was looking for his name in print, a free lunch, and a… — Frank J. Prial
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can… — Thomas Merton
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs,… — Loretta Lynn
May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith: "If we… — Richard L. Evans
My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't… — Yash Chopra
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central… — Don DeLillo
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of… — June Jordan
When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way. — Michael Lewis
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. — Eugene Ionesco
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. — Alexander Cockburn
I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that-stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders...I… — Chrissie Hynde
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer...When I was younger, I felt… — Patti Smith
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was… — James Madison
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly,… — Margaret Haddix

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