Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And… — Julian Barnes
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer. — William Maxwell
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp
It has been said that I have three heroes: Christ, Marx and Freud. This is reducing everything to formulae. In truth, my only hero is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the… — Erica Jong
The job of the writer is to kiss no ass, no matter how big and holy and white and tempting and powerful. — Ken Kesey
No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer. — Arthur Hailey
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals;… — Wole Soyinka
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I… — Franz Kafka
It's different for every writer. It's not a career for anyone who needs security. It's a career for gamblers. It's a career of ups and… — George R. R. Martin
I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite… — Anais Nin
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds. — Horton Foote
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. — Ambrose Bierce
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end. — Tahir Shah
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem. — Michael Chabon
It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises… — Jim Bishop
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one. — James T. Farrell
Did you write today? Then you're a writer today. — Julia Cameron
The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one. — Elwyn Brooks White
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is… — Walter Kirn
I don't even subscribe to writer's block being a truthful thing. I've had writer's laziness quite often. But I think it's all about sitting down… — Martin McDonagh
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my… — Stephen King
When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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