Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

On Being Blue celebrates both language and that which it represents and carefully draws our attention to that difficult middle ground on which the writer… — Gilbert Sorrentino
Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer… — Arthur Hailey
Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst. — Marv Wolfman
The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive, — Janet Malcolm
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the… — Janet Malcolm
But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom. — Sheldon Vanauken
When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much or widely. The aspiring writer… — Julius Lester
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the… — Dana Spiotta
That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen… — Dana Spiotta
If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer. — Donald Harington
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader… — Ellen Gilchrist
The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income. — Ellen Gilchrist
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is… — Unknown Author
Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and… — Unknown Author
A writer is someone who has written something today — J. A. Jance
Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit… — Noah Richler
Reading is, at its best, not an escape; it is genuine experience. A novel is not a monologue, but a conversation, a collaboration between writer… — Jonathan Evison
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. — Lawrence Wright
What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. — Lisa Morton
As a writer I have always fought for the right to write. For writing is a time-honored means of communication. Lack of communication, the refusal… — Piri Thomas
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a… — Yann Martel
If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and experiences into a novel. But… — Philip Greenspun
A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no… — Michael Spiller
A writer is the one who loves to write . . . on and about anything . . . And this clears that I am… — Anamika Mishra
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in… — John L'Heureux

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