Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less… — Ben Fountain
When I went in, my editor said, ‘I hope you don’t think you’re a writer.’ And I said, ‘I hope you don’t think I’m a… — Julia Cameron
I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think… — Jennifer Egan
If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer — Rita Dove
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out. — Robin Hobb
A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong. — Chuck Palahniuk
At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You… — Walter Mosley
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara
I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus.… — Suzanne Collins
Tomorrow morning the critic will be gone, but the writer will still be there facing the blank page. Nothing matters but that he keep working. — Steven Pressfield
I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither… — Lynn Abbey
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I… — Lynn Abbey
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published. — Lynn Abbey
This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another… — Tim Maleeny
What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,'… — Unknown Author
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder… — Bliss Carman
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human… — Alan Ayckbourn
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work. — Harold Ramis
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your… — Stephen King
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a… — Stephen King
Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of… — Stephen King
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's… — Ed McBain
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. — Robert B. Parker
I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the… — Robert B. Parker

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