Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy. — Harlan Ellison
You're not going to be a writer someday. You're a writer today. Discipline yourself to write and take time to enjoy writing. Do it a… — Jack Heffron
A writer is always working. — William Zinsser
There is no such thing as a secure writer: every novel is an impossible mountain. — John le Carre
It's an act of faith to be a writer in a post literate world. — Rita Mae Brown
Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and… — Anne Stevenson
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he… — Manuel Puig
I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd… — Liev Schreiber
The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter. — Marcel Proust
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. — Brander Matthews
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I… — Salman Rushdie
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't. — Ernest Hemingway
A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear. — Arthur Schopenhauer
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I… — Charles M. Schulz
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up… — Tayari Jones
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only… — C.S. Lewis
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the… — Lewis Carroll
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor. — Michael Crichton
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but… — Joy Williams
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer.… — Stephen King
A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue. — John le Carre
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. — Robertson Davies
Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty. — Peter Mayle
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production. — Susan Sontag
There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it. — Ciaran Carson

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