Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves… — Kate Mosse
Every writer I admire is my teacher. If you look at it, and if you care to read carefully enough and to read and reread… — Sandra Cisneros
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first… — Don Roff
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years,… — W. P. Kinsella
Aunt Lovey used to tell me that if I wanted to be a writer, I needed a writer's voice. 'Read,' she'd say, 'and if you… — Lori Lansens
A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. — Thomas Malthus
I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you… — Peter Shaffer
A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too. — Walter Kirn
Well, I think it’s extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn’t mean I think it’s easy. There’s… — David Guterson
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a… — Monica Ali
The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us,… — Emily Post
Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks. His… — Peter Mayle
I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering. — Donald McCaig
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a… — Eyvind Johnson
If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the… — Mem Fox
The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done… — Steven Zaillian
Truth is, every writer has to be a good editor, and you have to edit yourself. It's a skill every writer has to acquire. — Lisa Scottoline
Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world… — Michael Koryta
How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told… — Han Nolan
An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
If you are a good editor, your relationship with every writer is different. — Robert Gottlieb
Maybe being oneself is an acquired taste. For a writer it's a big deal to bow--or kneel or get knocked down--to the fact that you… — Patricia Hampl
Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and… — Stewart O'Nan
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me… — Anthony

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