Hours Quote by Louis Menand

A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.

— Joseph Brodsky

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

Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the…

— Anonymous

Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're…

— David Small

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

Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing.

— P. C. Cast

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.

— Peter Bichsel

… the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element…

— Derek Walcott

“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

Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.

— Joyce Carol Oates