Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. — Juan Goytisolo
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences;… — Gene Wolfe
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. — John Braine
The process of writing can be a powerful tool for self-discovery. Writing demands self-knowledge; it forces the writer to become a student of human nature,… — Unknown Author
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach. — Paul Fussell
Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry. — Thomas Perry
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of… — Simon McBurney
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But… — Harold Pinter
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books. — William Saroyan
Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas… — Kurt Vonnegut
Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart… — Julia Cameron
In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners… — David Mamet
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of… — Ben Okri
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Learn how to program and play lots of games. If you find yourself capable of writing a game, someday you'll be capable of writing a… — Unknown Author
Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in… — Neville Cardus
An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. — Benjamin Franklin
The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely wills and works… — Charlotte Bronte
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An… — Samuel Johnson
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside — Samuel Johnson
If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all. — Vaclav Havel
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. — Saul Bellow
I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past — Eduardo Galeano
Time mellows people as it mellows wine, as long as the grapes are good. You may set out to be a businesswoman or businessman but… — Barbara Johnson
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. — Oscar Wilde

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