Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's… — Anthony Swofford
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. — Barbara Holland
I have learned, as has many another better writer, to summon inspiration to my call as soon as I begin my day's stint, and not… — Albert Payson Terhune
A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life. — Vicki Baum
As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to… — Gary Ross
On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was… — Nia Vardalos
No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote… — Walter Lang
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. — Edmund Waller
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to… — Lewis Buzbee
To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that you… — Anatole Broyard
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say. — Steven Cojocaru
It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do… — Paul Gallico
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of… — Dorothea Brande
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht
A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young… — Octavia Butler
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer… — William Saroyan
I don't believe in writer's block. — Gabrielle Zevin
Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking… — Donald Miller
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the… — Anne Tyler
Nobody's safe around a writer. — Lanford Wilson
The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart. — Taiye Selasi
Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I… — Taiye Selasi
As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own. — Taiye Selasi
Writers are funny about reviews: when they get a good one they ignore it-- but when they get a bad review they never forget it.… — Art Buchwald

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