Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was… — Norma Fox Mazer
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the… — Unknown Author
I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer. — Fannie Flagg
We can be reluctant to recognize how much of our culture was literary, particularly now that so many of the institutional purveyors of literature happily… — Harold Bloom
The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every… — David Fincher
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down… — Wallace Stegner
The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private. — Wallace Stegner
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles. — Annie Dillard
I can't explain inspiration. A writer is either compelled to write or not. And if I waited for inspiration I wouldn't really be a writer. — Toni Morrison
What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker in life, generally… — Barbara Kingsolver
The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is… — Nadine Gordimer
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return… — Salman Rushdie
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of… — J M Coetzee
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role. — J M Coetzee
The writer cannot be a mere storyteller; he cannot be a mere teacher; he cannot merely X-ray society’s weaknesses, its ills, its perils. He or… — Ken Saro-Wiwa
The most important thing for me is that I've used my talents as a writer to enable the Ogoni people to confront their tormentors. I… — Ken Saro-Wiwa
I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting… — Jim Jarmusch
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a… — William Mapother
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine,… — Wilfrid Sheed
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of… — Robert Coover
Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you. — Edward Abbey
King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on… — Edward Abbey
I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart,… — Edward Abbey
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in. — Edward Abbey

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