Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

How I became a better writer was that I kept writing. — Sallie Tisdale
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. — Tim Cahill
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard… — Caitlin Flanagan
My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. — Unknown Author
Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most… — Unknown Author
Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it may bore you,… — Unknown Author
As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is… — Unknown Author
I enjoy writing songs that could have been written before [my time]. When I feel like I'm tapping into a deep vein in the body… — Ketch Secor
Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer. — Beth Lisick
If you're going to be a writer, you're going to write because you have to. It's not like other arts and not nearly as rewarding… — Unknown Author
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and… — Unknown Author
I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an… — Luis Alberto Urrea
Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as… — Meghan Daum
The writer is the person who stays in the room. — Ron Carlson
PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face… — Alexander Chee
I think pornography is a very rich medium, and I've studied it closely and learned quite a lot as a writer from it. — Dennis Cooper
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to… — Rachel Kushner
I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of… — Rachel Kushner
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. — E. M. Forster
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a… — Graham Swift
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already… — J. G. Ballard
I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports… — Richard M. Nixon
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be. — Ayn Rand
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture… — Elihu Palmer

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