Writers Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image ““How become a writer? Naturally.”” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writers Writing
“There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.” — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.” — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your… — Maegan Cook Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is all about having something to say. And it’d better be interesting. If you don’t have anything interesting to say, don’t… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“The best thing about a being a writer is the creative process. I often describe it as a beautiful headache that I wouldn't change… — Nicole Huggins Copy Share Image
“Well, if you want to be a writer, you’re going to have to start letting people read your stuff, you know.” — Kellie McAllen Copy Share Image
“If you want to become a better writer, you have to write. But you also have to read.” — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of… — Sophie Okonedo Copy Share Image
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Hollywood has made a big push to be more supportive of female writers and directors. — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
