Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself… — David Sedaris
I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A… — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'… — Jack Kerouac
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want… — Gore Vidal
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a… — Gregory Benford
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time… — Siegfried Sassoon
Mary Jo Putney is a gifted writer with an intuitive understanding of what makes romances work. I loved Silk and Shadows, couldn't put it down,… — Jayne Ann Krentz
Incredibly deep research combines with the talents of a fine historian and writer to produce superb narrative history. The true character and relationship of these… — Unknown Author
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. — Martin Cruz Smith
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it. — William Golding
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song. — Gavin DeGraw
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and… — Nick Cave
Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you. Life is your call! Every area of your life is your call. You are the… — Rhonda Byrne
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally… — Amy Klobuchar
I know that no reader ever asks a question. A writer must force his favors upon his readers. — Jan Neruda
There is no such thing as realistic dialogue. If you [simply recorded] the real conversation of any people and played it back from the stage,… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions. — Cass Elliot
There were epochs in the history of humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes,… — Augusto Roa Bastos
Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was… — M. John Harrison
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when… — John M. Ford
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during… — J. L. Carr
I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me — Pat Mora
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I could see the… — Julia Alvarez

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