Best Writer You Quotes
95 Writer You quotes by 87 unique authors
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If you are not a writer, you will not understand the difficulties of writing. If you are not a writer, you will not know the…
— Mem Fox
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Two kinds of reading can be distinguished. I call them reading like a reader and reading like a writer ... when you read like a…
— Frank Smith
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As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You…
— Augusten Burroughs
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See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And…
— Julian Barnes
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Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped. You…
— J. Robert Lennon
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And if you're gonna be a writer, you just truly have to be a writer. You have to throw yourself into it and deal with…
— Cheryl Strayed
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled…
— Jo Nesbo
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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
— Paul Harding
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I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of…
— Walker Percy
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You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You…
— Ali Smith
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As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success…
— Winston Churchill
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As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.
— Mike White
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If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles…
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.
— Richelle Mead
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I don't think anyone sits down and thinks, 'I know, I'll be a chick-lit writer.' You write the book that you want to write and…
— Sophie Kinsella
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
— Caitlin Flanagan
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As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
— Jay Griffiths
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I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in…
— Jeff Abbott
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Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much…
— Alan Bradley
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As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
— Ann Brashares
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I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in…
— Markus Zusak
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If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in…
— Tom Waits
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When you're a writer, you hear your internal critic, and that's really hard to get over. And then sometimes you hear critiques from classmates and…
— Veronica Roth
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