Writer Writes Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

A writer writes what other people only think. — Sol Stein
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A writer writes what he knows, in ways that are natural to him. — Mo Yan
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning. — Stephen Jay Gould
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but… — Joy Williams
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it,… — Joy Williams
I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is… — Tina Fey
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the… — Leo Rosten
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. — Len Wein
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. — Regina Brett
As every writer knows... there is something mysterious about the writer's ability, on any given day, to write. When the juices are flowing, or the… — John Gardner
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a… — Alfred Kazin
I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work… — Lee Hall
You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their… — Kevin Spacey
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are… — Valerie June
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. — Thomas Wolfe
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the… — Leo C Rosten
Love is the poets poison, that drink willingly drunk which elevates us to illuminated bliss, yet, it is when said love passes that the writer… — Yust Lundberg

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