Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my… — Harold Pinter
I'm an escapist kind of writer. — Maeve Binchy
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. — Amy Lowell
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. — Marianne Moore
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic. — Leo Tolstoy
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls… — Paul Ryan
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the… — Virginia Woolf
It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful. — David Mamet
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. — David Mamet
I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre. — Christopher Durang
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to… — PJ Harvey
James Cain - faugh! Everything he touches smells like a billygoat. He is every kind of writer I detest, a faux naix, a Proust in… — Raymond Chandler
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back… — John le Carre
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter… — Frederik Pohl
You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a… — A. E. van Vogt
I quit my job, and went ashore to become a writer. — Theodore Sturgeon
The history of books shows the humblest origin of some of the most valued, wrought as these were out of obscure materials by persons whose… — Amos Bronson Alcott
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. — Bernard Malamud
Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer — Piers Anthony
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter. — Brian Aldiss
Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book. — Jean Craighead George
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will… — Jean Craighead George
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds… — Ursula K. Le Guin

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