Writer Quotes
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death. (Quote by - Edna Ferber)
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. (Quote by - James Baldwin)
Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page. (Quote by - Regina Brett)
He (the writer) warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies. (Quote by - John Arbuthnot)
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. (Quote by - Sinclair Lewis)
If you wish to be a writer, write. (Quote by - Epictetus)
A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft. (Quote by - Herbert Gold)
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. (Quote by - Grace Paley)
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. (Quote by - John Amos)
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. (Quote by - André Gide)
Pure gold in triplicate - as a performer, a writer and a friend. (Quote by - Ronnie Corbett)
If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer. (Quote by - Mark Hansen)
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt (Quote by - Calvin Trillin)
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it. (Quote by - Roger Angell)
He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer. (Quote by - Bruce Forsyth)
This was the first one I played because the riff in the verse really got me going. I must have been about eight years old at the time. (Quote by - Danny O'donoghue)
Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. (Quote by - Martin Amis)
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door (Quote by - James Michener)
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. (Quote by - Samuel Crothers)
I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. (Quote by - Christian Bale)
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. (Quote by - Isaac Singer)
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be (Quote by - Walter Landor)
The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. (Quote by - Russell Baker)
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes fiction. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
Anyone can write one book: for instance even politicians do it! Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer. (Quote by - Len Deighton)
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write. (Quote by - James T. Farrell)
To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way... (Quote by - Paul Acquasanta)
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. (Quote by - Charles Peguy)
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller. (Quote by - Erskine Caldwell)
My occupation is solely that of a painter. No one can argue with pictures. (Quote by - Louisa Mae Alcott)
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy. (Quote by - Irwin Shaw)
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. (Quote by - Isaac Singer)
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. (Quote by - John Cheever)
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others. (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. (Quote by - Nelson Algren)
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. (Quote by - Anatole France)
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth. (Quote by - W B Yeats)
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. (Quote by - P L Travers)
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. (Quote by - Dean Acheson)
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water. (Quote by - Ernest Hemingway)
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
