Dumb Quote by Joyce Thompson

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They…

— Cornelia Funke

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies…

— Charles Bukowski

Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and…

— Gloria Steinem

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

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the…

— Walt Whitman

They may recognize themselves in what you're writing, and then they have to say, "Well, she doesn't see me as I see myself." All…

— Vivian Gornick

That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant.…

— Renata Adler

There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful…

— Peter Schjeldahl

“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