Writer Needs Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

• Ideally, the writer needs no audience other than the few who understand that it is immodest and greedy to want more. — Gore Vidal
• A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.… — Jorge Luis Borges
• Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end… — Ernest Hemingway
• I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world. — Mary Karr
• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the… — Dana Spiotta
• 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
• It's what every writer needs: a daybed. — Vince Flynn
• I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment. — William Trevor
• The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't… — Manuel Puig
• If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you… — Octavia Butler
• To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength. — Lawrence Clark Powell
• A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles
• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the… — William Faulkner
• A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do… — Jess Walter
• A writer needs a life of introspection. — Tom Robbins
• Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs… — Lisa Unger
• A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. — Philip Roth

Who Wrote These Writer Needs Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Writer Needs Quotes as follows:

• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Walter Kirn
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Vince Flynn
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by William Trevor
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Manuel Puig
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Octavia Butler
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Lawrence Clark Powell
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Orson Welles
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by William Faulkner
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Jess Walter
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Tom Robbins
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Lisa Unger
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Philip Roth
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Gore Vidal
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Ernest Hemingway
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Mary Karr
• 1 Writer Needs Quote by Dana Spiotta