Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on… — Charles Bukowski
As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You… — Augusten Burroughs
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant… — Steven Pressfield
At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it… — Philip Roth
Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me… — Alan Dean Foster
Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer. — Zadie Smith
If a writer stops observing, he is finished. — Ernest Hemingway
The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to… — Tim Winton
Almost 70 years have gone by, and I've still got that feeling when I write... Writing, for me, is still it. It has always been… — Clive James
From time to time it has struck me that as a writer, I've somehow managed to live my life as I had long ago dreamt… — Luke Davies
You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write. — Tim Cahill
A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of… — Joseph Addison
USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy… — Ambrose Bierce
Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when… — William Zinsser
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and… — Elie Wiesel
Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible. — Tom Bissell
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They… — Billy Joel
The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much… — Douglas Adams
I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I… — Arthur Miller
I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind,… — Eduardo Galeano
See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes. — August Wilson
If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing . . . then you are a writer. — Rainer Maria Rilke
I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing… — Linda Ronstadt

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