Non Writer Quotes
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Non Writer Quotes & Sayings
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I'm a reluctant writer of non-fiction, in part because I don't really feel qualified.
— William Gibson
The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.
— Paul Johnson
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
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
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
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
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
Religion [...] may be seen as literature that has succeeded beyond any writer's wildest dreams.
— Jack Miles
A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials.
— Garry Fitchett
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
— Gerald Brenan
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 non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922] — Franz Kafka
[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922] — Franz Kafka
I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
— Peter Benchley
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
'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
I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
— Shia Labeouf
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
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor