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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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
