Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one… — William Graham Sumner
I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his… — Saul Bellow
Listen closely. There’s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I don’t give a damn if my work is commercial or not…I’m the… — John Fante
So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief. — John Fante
These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything… — Mike Tyson
Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them,… — Holly Lisle
Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion. — Walter Jon Williams
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel
I guess what I like in my movies is where you see a character change by maybe two degrees as opposed to the traditional movie… — Paul Thomas Anderson
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer. — Alan Furst
I'm not really a mass market writer. — Alan Furst
If you're a writer, you're always working. — Alan Furst
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has… — Jonathan Lethem
I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven… — Barbara Hambly
Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the… — Larry Niven
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide
The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. — Don DeLillo
There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live. — Don DeLillo
I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant and… — Don DeLillo
A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world. — Kay Ryan
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there… — E T A Hoffmann
Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or… — Paul Robeson
There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It… — Ernest Hemingway
The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no… — William Faulkner
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last… — Robert Asprin

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