Biting Quote by Italo Calvino

It's misleading to think of writers as special creatures, word sorcerers who possess some sort of magical knowledge hidden from everyone else. Writers are…

— Ralph Fletcher

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

Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it…

— C. S. Lewis

Writers are people who put pen to paper every day.

— Richard Russo

Many have an irresistible itch for writing.

— Juvenal

“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

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

— A. Lee Martinez

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville