Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

I wasnt always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then I was a stay-at-home mom. — Janet Evanovich
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other. — Nora Roberts
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that… — Nora Roberts
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart
As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you… — Iain Banks
A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an… — Paul Muni
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain… — Cherrie Moraga
Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader… — Marcel Proust
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of… — June Jordan
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know… — Cameron Crowe
Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated… — Curtis Sittenfeld
I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you. — Jennifer Weiner
I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed — Dan Simmons
I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply,… — Mavis Gallant
You have to be lonely to be a writer — Edna O'Brien
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. — John McGahern
If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral,… — Ann Radcliffe
When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out. — Janet Flanner
I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if… — Penelope Fitzgerald
The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style. — Ann Beattie
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window… — John Cheever
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer… — Azar Nafisi
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he… — William Faulkner

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