Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having… — Jean Rostand
The number one thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence. Writers are thus the pinnacle of intelligence. While actors are great and awesome, writers… — Unknown Author
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. — Catherine Drinker Bowen
People are certainly impressed by the aura of creative power which a writer may wear, but can easily demolish it with a few well-chosen questions.… — Brian Stableford
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. — Ken MacLeod
One has to live a life that creates a writer. — Erno Paasilinna
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. — Jack Smith
The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't. — Jon Franklin
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a… — Luigi Pirandello
To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather… — Dilys Laing
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. — William Hazlitt
Thousands of volumes have been written about aviation, but we do not automatically have thousands of true and special friends in their authors. That rare… — Richard Bach
It isn't often that a writer of superlative skills knows enough about flying to write well about it. — Unknown Author
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby
Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. — Gore Vidal
Improvisation is the essence of good talk. Heaven defend us from the talker who doles out things prepared for us; but let heaven not less… — Max Beerbohm
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and… — Theodore Dreiser
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love. — Doris Lessing

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