Books Quote by John Lahr

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

“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

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors. All are continually asking, "What does this represent? What does…

— Steven Pressfield

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

— Walter Dean Myers

That's what a writer does; they make things up and that makes for good reading.

— Debbie Reynolds

I think, for any writer, when you write, you just write.

— David Farr