Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad… — David Ogilvy
I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front… — Sharon Olds
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. — Bix Beiderbecke
I'm a writer who likes to be influenced. — Kenneth Koch
I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life… — Pope Benedict XVI
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their… — Donna Tartt
But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work — Donna Tartt
Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time… — Donna Tartt
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, — Michael Ondaatje
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates
The writer’s life is a life of revisions. — Jonathan Franzen
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will… — Ilya Ehrenburg
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. — Joseph Haydn
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent,… — Sarah Ruhl
As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the… — Theresa Rebeck
In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead… — Colson Whitehead
But nothing has replaced the writer. He or she is still stuck with the same old job of saying something that other people will want… — William Zinsser
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is. — William Zinsser
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is… — William Zinsser
Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer. — Chuck Jones
I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer. — Michael Connelly
I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the… — Michael Connelly
I really believe that a writer is someone who has trained their mind to misbehave — Brad Thor
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A… — Harlan Coben

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