Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway — Anne McCaffrey
For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time. — Terry Brooks
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his… — Terry Brooks
Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would be… — Stephen R. Donaldson
What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.' — Robert Creeley
I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful… — Sally Mann
My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about… — Anton Chekhov
Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that.… — Padma Lakshmi
Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going… — Unknown Author
The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free. — Gabrielle Roy
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no… — William Faulkner
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. — Peter Carey
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error. — Unknown Author
The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression… — Mark Twain
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future. — Jorge Luis Borges
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is… — Ernest Hemingway
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler
The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and… — Renata Adler
In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity… — Elwyn Brooks White
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to… — Unknown Author
Becoming a writer means being creative enough to find the time and the place in your life for writing. — Heather Sellers
It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's… — Natalie MacLean
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors:… — Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

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