Becomes Quote by Robert J. Sawyer

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

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 don't write, they read and transcribe.

— William S Burroughs

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is…

— Isaac Asimov

Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it…

— Etgar Keret

A writer is someone who writes!

— Pat Schneider

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.

— Flannery O'Connor

If the writer were more like a reader, he’d be a reader, not a writer. It’s as uncomplicated as that.

— Julian Barnes

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

— Howard Gordon

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur