Books Quote by Robert Munsch

“There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does.”

— Millicent Ashby

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

— Irwin Shaw

“Every author does not write for every reader”

— Samuel Johnson

One is a writer, or one is not.

— Monique Wittig

A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.

— Baron de Montesquieu

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

— Walter Savage Landor

There's a truth that comes through when an author performs his own work that is unique and special.

— Michael Feinstein

A writer always writes.

— Don Roff

Every writer has to find their own way into writing.

— Margaret Mahy

The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.

— Bryce Courtenay

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin