20th century Quote by John Updike

“Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

“The truth was much simpler. When do you become a writer? “When you say you are,” he said. I”

— Jeff Goins

“The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“The author must write what he has to say, not speak it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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

“A writer is a writer when he says he is.”

— Steven Pressfield

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It's been said of writers that if we don't have to write, we ought not to.”

— ChiLibris

Don't be scared of 'said.' Writers sometimes go looking for alternatives because they worry that 'he said' and 'she said' will feel repetitive if…

— Tana French