Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence. — Padgett Powell
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good. — Dorianne Laux
I love people and psychology. As a writer, I’m not so interested in Fred getting from the living room to the car. I want to… — Dorianne Laux
I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why… — Andrea Barrett
The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same for his… — Philippa Pearce
A feverish, fearless writer, Justin Taylor delivers 'blessed pleasure' in translating the 'baffling Christ babble' in The Gospel of Anarchy, a novel whose shiftless characters,… — Christine Schutt
One is a writer, or one is not. — Monique Wittig
As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work. — Nadeem Aslam
Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write… — Stephen Coonts
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely… — Arthur Kleinman
Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at least two of… — Ron Sexsmith
There’s a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone.… — Mary Ruefle
The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac. — John Lanchester
A writer can't just be well-educated or good at research; to build a living, breathing world with interesting characters, you have to write from the… — Lynn Flewelling
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written. — Unknown Author
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there… — Mary Lavin
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make belief… — Brian Evenson
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense of… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new voice… — Yasmine Galenorn
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
A writer writes what other people only think. — Sol Stein
Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough… — Noah Lukeman
Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children. — Noah Lukeman

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