Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

A writer works from the material she has, but it comes from the unconscious. Everything is stored up and one never knows what comes up… — Rosamond Lehmann
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey
I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn't reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to… — David Simon
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like… — Alan Moore
I'm a writer who just happens to draw — Matt Groening
I am not a writer except when I write. — Juan Carlos Onetti
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret,… — Maurice Blanchot
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two… — Gene Wolfe
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's not the same… — Lorrie Moore
The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that… — Tobias Wolff
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the… — Joy Williams
Nothing the writer can do is ever enough. — Joy Williams
There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and… — Gaston Bachelard
A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but… — Robert Musil
My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… — Thomas Merton
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're… — Harper Lee
I believe that nothing completely satisfies an imaginative writer but copious and continuous draughts of unmitigated praise, always provided it is accompanied by a large… — Frederick Locker-Lampson
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me. — Peter Benchley

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