Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline. — John Irving
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,… — Seneca the Younger
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end… — Ernest Hemingway
We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer,… — Andy Wilkinson
I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of… — Miranda Lambert
To me, getting up every single night and trying to reach out to an audience, and trying to dig deeper and further in the play… — Kevin Spacey
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem. — Ann Reed
In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work… — Alain de Botton
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose… — Charles Baudelaire
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have… — Elwyn Brooks White
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,… — Oscar Wilde
The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all… — Danny Ford
There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are… — Phyllis A. Whitney
Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer who… — James Patrick Kelly
To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and then to just… — Deborah Levy
Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward in its political… — Unknown Author
If you're talking triple threat of a writer, singer and actress, that would probably be Beyoncé. If Aaliyah were still here, she and Beyoncé would… — Ginuwine
The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer, — Nic Pizzolatto
A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear. — Cinda Williams Chima
Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world… — Susan Patron
I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the… — Louise Doughty
If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . . a… — Paul Copan
If a writer is honest, if what is at stake for him can seem to matter to his readers, then his work may be read.… — Frederick Busch
With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A… — Skip Horack

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