Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. — Ernest Hemingway
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. — Donal Henahan
You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. — Doris Lessing
In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.… — Jose Saramago
The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection. — Junot Diaz
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing… — Martin Amis
There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you… — Clay Shirky
For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with… — Virginia Hamilton
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. — Stephen Jay Gould
The goal in blogging/ business/ inspiring non-fiction is to share a truth, or at least a truth as the writer sees it. To not just… — Seth Godin
Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper. — Jonas Eriksson
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience — William Faulkner
The future depicted in a good SF story ought to be in fact possible, or at least plausible. That means that the writer should be… — Frederik Pohl
The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer. — Carson McCullers
As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool. — Anne Sexton
You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a… — Margaret Atwood
I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good writer. If your… — Tori Amos
But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up,… — Grace Paley
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing
Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and… — Paul Auster
People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail… — Sara Sheridan
The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to. — Cynthia Ozick
The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study... — Erica Jong
The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. — Gore Vidal
The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys… — Eric Maisel

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