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I'm more of a writer than a fighter you see. — Luke Pearson

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major. — Stephen Ambrose

The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into a new land. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur. — Harlan Ellison

You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings. — Norman Lear

intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and — George Orwell

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through. — Markus Zusak

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. — James Norman Hall

I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. — Earl King

Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing. — David Milch

Even after a thousand pages we don't want to leave the world the writer has made for us, or the make-believe people who live there. — Stephen King

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions. — Cass Elliot

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun! — Joss Whedon

What did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off. — Jack Kerouac

A writer's job is never finished. — Sai Marie Johnson

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer. — Aleksandar Hemon

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. — John Irving

I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre. — Christopher Durang

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall. — Daniel Radcliffe

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make — Antony Beevor

I'm a singer and a writer first. I started to rap by accident, being playful. — Kesha

My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts. — Randy Alcorn

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes. — Anne Lamott

I am excited by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot. — Rick Moody

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything. — Stan Lee

It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full sensory experience. It's not just tasting notes. — Natalie MacLean

At the end of the day I am a writer, and if I don't take care of this, no one else will. — Elizabeth Gilbert

A writer or an author must always be the no.1 fan of his/her book. — Aditi Dufare

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself. — Jay Neugeboren

Safety and security stifle creativity! The more I suffer the better I create. But then I create to live of it safe and secure one day! — Nathan Haddish Mogos

Mind your words, dear writer for you are holding a delicate reader in them. — Maria Stoica

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be? — Anne Lamott

The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer! — Ken Bruen

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book. — Mahmoud Darwish

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer. — Amity Gaige

If you're a writer, you're always working. — Alan Furst

A freelance writer is paid per word, per piece, perhaps. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer. — Jean Craighead George

Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. — Lawrence Kasdan

There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it. — Carla H. Krueger

It's a great day when you meet a new writer, isn't it? It's like an introduction to a best friend you didn't know existed just hours before. — Victoria Connelly

A writer needs a life of introspection. — Tom Robbins

For every prescriptive idea about the craft of fiction, there's at least one writer who makes a virtue of the contrary. — Sarah Hall

I would like, in the long term, to be recognized as a writer-director-actor. — Corey Feldman

A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!! — Anamika Mishra

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not. — Nicolas Berggruen

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. — Leonard Cohen

Nothing, not love, not greed, not passion or hatred, is stronger than a writer's need to change another writer's copy. — Arthur Evans

The first time I went to Helene Hanff's apartment at 305 East 72nd Street, it was 1977, and I was a 16-year-old girl who wanted to be a writer. — Jean Hanff Korelitz

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure. — Jonathan Ames

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions. — John Updike

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. — Dwight Yoakam

A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them. — K.E. Garvey

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? — Kurt Vonnegut

A writer needs to write and a reader wants to read so this creates a symbiotic relationship, at least most of the time. — Terrance Zepke

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. — Neil LaBute

Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer. — Susan Juby

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. — Amy Bloom

If you're a writer, you write. If you don't, you're dead. You have no home, no reason to be offered a seat at any table, and no reason to live. — James Grissom

A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer. — Ann Leckie

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. — Jonathan Franzen

I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me. — Charlotte Eriksson

I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me. — James Lasdun

You can't think yourself out of a writing block; you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. — John Rogers

As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It doesn't take five novels to become a great writer ... it takes one novel rewritten five different times. — B. Chancellor Burgweger

As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid. — Malcolm Gladwell

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one. — James T. Farrell

'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer. — Rachel Kushner

The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying ... : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point. — Henry Watson Fowler

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. — Gabrielle Roy

Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce. — Fennel Hudson

I always wanted to be a writer. — John Searles

If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while ... — John Geddes

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer. — Arda Collins

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile. — Tina Fey

It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony. — George G. Williams

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer. — Terry Southern

Being a real writer means being able to do the work on a bad day. — Norman Mailer

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter

You really have to love words if you're going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly spend a lot of time with words. — Natalie Babbitt

I have the heart of an artist and the soul of a writer. — A.D. Posey

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books. — John Hodgman

I'm a writer. Therefore, I am not sane. — Edgar Allan Poe

Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any ... '
'You talk like a writer,' said Francois. — Charles Bukowski

By absorbing so many books he was trying to purge his own failure as a writer. It wasn't working, but he feared what would happen if he stopped. — Chad Harbach

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer. — David Shapiro

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper. — E.B. White

The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer. — Leslie Caron

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw. — Len Wein

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes. — Patrick Modiano

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer. — Chloe Thurlow

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. — T.K. Naliaka

I heard a preacher say recently that hope is a revolutionary patience; let me add that so is being a writer. — Anne Lamott

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art. — Julia Cameron

My experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there. — Marion Dane Bauer