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Anyone who writes can be called a writer because they write.
— Dejan Stojanovic
London and Fog! When these two come together, it is time to be a writer!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
— Jane Gardam
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
— Cynthia Voigt
One would think a writer would be happy here if a writer is every happy anywhere. — Raymond Chandler
I've discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.
— Paulo Coelho
No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.
— Emma Donoghue
I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.
— Juliana Hatfield
As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
— Romesh Gunesekera
If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
— Peter Greenaway
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
— Agatha Christie
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
— Quentin Tarantino
Words can't describe... shouldn't be in a writer's vocabulary.
— Mary M. Forbes
No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.
— Margaret Atwood
A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337 — Candace Bushnell
I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
— William Hazlitt
In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.
— Ernest Hemingway,
To be a writer is to constantly evolve and keep ones imagination expanding and that's what make a great author and artist.
— Adona M. Pierre
There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.
— Arundhati Roy
A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.
— Rebecca McClanahan
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.
— Fannie Flagg
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer.
— Jack Smith
I thought I was going to be a horror story writer. My influences were horror writers, like Rich Matheson, Ray Bradbury and Bram Stoker.
— Christopher Moore
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
— Frank Moore Colby
A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.
— Blaise Cendrars
A real writer has to be able to write about the body. They have to. It's where we live. So
— Helen Oyeyemi
If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer ... I would just be well adjusted.
— Garth Stein
I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer.
— Robert Loomis
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
— Anton Chekhov
If you appear in the 'Atlantic' or 'Harper's' or the 'New Yorker,' by God, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
— Kurt Vonnegut
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
— Andrew Davies
I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.
— Kristan Higgins
If you want to be a writer, learn to type.
— Sinclair Lewis
A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution
— Jean-Paul Sartre
This is the most powerful thing I can do! I'm going to be a writer.
— Candace Bushnell
I'm a writer. Now I've started to be on television. I have a big mouth. And I have good TV teeth, they say.
— Steven Cojocaru
I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I was the bigger that capital 'W.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
— John Boyne
I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy.
— Allison Silverman
This world can be quite wonderful once you let yourself be a part of it.
— Charlotte Eriksson
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Writer's were supposed to be a litte crazy
— S.E. Hinton
Even I thought I would be a writer who put something out every year. But that's not how it worked out.
— Junot Diaz
To be a good writer, one must be homosexual.
— John Horne Burns
(On her son) I've met writer's block. He is short, diapered and keeps unplugging my laptop. Good news: he can be conquered with a bottle and a nap.
— Cyrese Covelli
As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.
— Michael Easton
I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
— George Bernard Shaw
Chekhov was a great writer, but not all novels have to follow his rules. Not all guns in stories have to be fired, Tamaru
— Haruki Murakami
Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.
— Lynne Sharon Schwartz
A writer must know how people read, what are the main sources of reading errors, and what can be done to possibly forestall them.
— Rudolf Flesch
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.
— John Ridley
I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.
— Jonathan Lethem
A writer's mind can never be empty.
— Michael Acciarino
If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.
— Baby Halder
I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.
— Juliana Hatfield
But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
— J.G. Ballard
A writer writes to a great extent to be read (let's admire those who say they don't, but not believe them).
— Albert Camus
I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
— Carla H. Krueger
The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
— Joseph Wambaugh
As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.
— James Hilton
The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.
— Duane Michals
To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.
— Louise Penny
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.
— Neil LaBute
Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.
— Kimberly Willis Holt
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [ ... ]
— Gary Shteyngart
Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay.
— Clare B. Dunkle
I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.
— Jacqueline Woodson
I struggle as a writer, and I'm convinced that if I was at school now, I'd be termed as having ADS. Two minutes and I'm drifting.
— Johnny Vegas
I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.
— William Trevor
I'm proud to be a CHRISTIAN WRITER
— Amanda Stephan
You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.
— Paul Theroux
The first job of a writer is to be honest.
— Irvine Welsh
