Born Quote by Joy Williams

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing.…

— Jennifer Stone

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

Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp.

— Courtney A. Kemp

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

— Karl Kraus

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are…

— Dorothea Brande

“Writers are generally split into two camps: those who carefully outline their stories and know the ending before they begin, and those who refuse…

— John Grisham

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan

There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just…

— George R. R. Martin

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect…

— Anonymous

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.

— John Connolly

“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of…

— Michel de Certeau

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about…

— Elif Batuman