Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. — Justin Halpern
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of… — Ignazio Silone
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write! — Jacqueline Susann
Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said,… — Leon Uris
I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a… — Leon Uris
Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being. — Laurie R. King
I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer — Leon Uris
I was quite a reader before I became a writer. — Tom T. Hall
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct… — Anthony Minghella
Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you break… — George V. Higgins
Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. — Tracy K. Smith
Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered. — Anthony Minghella
You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address that. — Anthony Minghella
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident… — Flannery O'Connor
The English writer, Charles Lamb, said one day: "I hate that man." "But you don't know him." "Of course, I don't," said Lamb. "Do you… — Charles Lamb
Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? — Colson Whitehead
The act of writing bears something in common with the act of love. The writer, at his most productive moments, just flows. He gives of… — Sidney Jourard
I am the worlds laziest writer. — Oscar Peterson
A Writer says: read what I have written An historian says: listen to my lecture A critic says: listen to what I think A journalist… — Gideon Haigh
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein
So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to… — Rick Moody
A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor. — Irwin Shaw
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks… — Ariel Gore
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. — Irwin Shaw

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