Books Quote by Edna Ferber

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must…

— Kenneth Tynan

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant.…

— Renata Adler

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined…

— Walter Kirn

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at…

— Raymond Chandler