Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience. — Ellen Glasgow
If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2… — Ronald Fisher
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings. ... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer… — John Updike
I don't think any religion makes any sense and I think people who are into that are really getting duped, and I don't think Judaism… — Howard Stern
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his… — J. G. Ballard
It is true that I am a writer, and I was married to a composer, and I have lived in a small village in New… — Jamaica Kincaid
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife,… — Marya Mannes
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. — Louise Erdrich
Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I… — Annika Sorenstam
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a… — Unknown Author
What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. — Hugo Gernsback
The only valid reason to use clichÃ©s is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect… — Leonard Bishop
Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence, that… — Leonard Bishop
There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published. — J.A. Konrath
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. — Len Deighton
When you find a waiter who is a waiter and not an actor, writer, musician or poet, you've found a jewel. — Andre Soltner

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