Writer S Quotes
- I’ve never had a writer’s block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you’re going to get;… — Elton John
- Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave… — Zadie Smith
- I never have [suffered writer’s block], although I’ve had books that didn’t work out. I had to stop writing them. I just abandoned them. It… — Margaret Atwood
- It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful. — David Mamet
- A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates
- The writer’s life is a life of revisions. — Jonathan Franzen
- It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will… — Ilya Ehrenburg
- The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style. — Ann Beattie
- Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life. — Flannery O'Connor
- A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong. — Chuck Palahniuk
- Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of… — Stephen King
- That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want… — Gore Vidal
- Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language—a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As… — Noy Holland
- I think persistence in the face of adversity is an essential part of a writer’s job description. If you don’t care enough about it to… — Lawrence Block
- The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us,… — Emily Post
- I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering. — Donald McCaig
- Prescription for writer’s block: fear of poverty. — Peter Mayle
- While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein
- The virtue of a piece is the writer’s thoughts. — Joan Acocella
- I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had… — Samuel Beckett