First place Quote by John Gardner

“What's crucial is whether your writing attains the standards you've set for yourself. (...) Basically a writer has a quiet, inner motivation, and doesn't…

— Haruki Murakami

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a…

— Alistair Cross

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White

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

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Writer's block isn't always a problem. It can be a process of writing that helps us write better.”

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

“The problem with being a writer is that it’s not enough to be a writer; one must also be seen to be a writer.”

— Paul Marlowe

“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

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

— Anonymous