Writer Quotes

4019 Writer quotes by 2168 unique authors

God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The… — Julian Coolidge
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing… — Will Allison
It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to… — Jean-Paul Sartre
...the prominent Egyptian government minister, university professor, and writer Taha Hussein...devoted himself to the study of pre-Islamic Arabian poetry and ended up concluding that much… — Toby Lester
Okay, maybe I'm not such a shitty writer. But I can't pull my ideas together, Van Houten. My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into… — John Green
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
Until I became a published writer, I remained completely ignorant of books on how to write and courses on the subject ... they would have… — Isaac Asimov
It is by sitting down to write every morning that he becomes a writer. Those who do not do this remain amateurs. — Gerald Brenan
When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It… — Maya Angelou
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents split up. It… — Elliot Perlman
I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did. — Thomas Keneally
It's important as a writer to do my art well and do it in a way that is powerful and beautiful and meaningful, so that… — Joy Harjo
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off… — Raymond Chandler
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about… — Ernest Hemingway

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