Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it. — Robert Penn Warren
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes… — Arthur Miller
If you wait for inspiration, you're not a writer, but a waiter. — Louis L'Amour
He's a great writer. If I didn't think so I wouldn't have tried to kill him... I was the champ and when I read his… — Ernest Hemingway
People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a… — Robert Bloch
But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did… — Majel Barrett
I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't. — Robyn Davidson
Inside of all the makeup and the character and makeup, it's you, and I think that's what the audience is really interested in... you, how… — Gregory Peck
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself. — Anatole France
Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed. — Leo Rosten
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is… — Edward Dahlberg
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. — Lynn Abbey
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the… — Barbara Holland
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. — James A. Michener
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid. — Irwin Shaw
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. — Leo Tolstoy
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am… — George Burns
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer… — Mario Vargas Llosa
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom… — Edgar Allan Poe
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times… — Bill Gates

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