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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
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
The writer's life is frightful
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.
— James Norman Hall
Writing is simply another means for truth to escape, besides crawling out the hole it's eaten in the author's belly.
— Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell
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
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
— Flannery O'Connor
An enormous amount of a writer's life is performance. I find myself wondering, at the moment, whether I do too much of it.
— Nick Harkaway
The writer of history is perhaps closer to the artist than the scholar.
— Theodor Mommsen
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
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
Every writer is the amanuensis to their characters
— Lucy Coats
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
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
Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.
— Jonathan Lethem
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
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
— Antony Beevor
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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
I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
— Shia Labeouf
Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.
— Jean Craighead George
'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
— Rachel Kushner
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
— J.K. Rowling
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer ... and on the reader.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.
— Beth Nielsen Chapman
Scott Adams: From him, I learned how to write a three-panel comic. Probably the best pure writer on the comics page.
— Stephan Pastis
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
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
I write my stories for my children, the best fan club a writer could ever have. They keep me writing and make it fun.
— Alan W. Harris
From the writer of "Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn"Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience. — Ryan Tyler Palmer
The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.
— Vikas Swarup
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Being an author is to have a toe in the creative pool and a foot in the vat of commerce.
— Fennel Hudson
Writing heals my heart like no pill ever could.
— Rob Bignell, Editor
The pages afforded glimpses into my soul where I'd hidden it, behind masks of paper and ink.
— Rachel L. Schade
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.
— Alberto Moravia
A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society.
— Henry Johnson Jr
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
— William Faulkner
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You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer.
— Richard Wisniewski
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
— Salman Rushdie
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
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
— T.K. Naliaka
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
What the writer needs is an empty day ahead.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
— Criss Jami
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
— Samuel Butler
The novel was simple, heartwarming, painful, and lovely, all in perfect doses." -Writer's Digest Review of Emily Nelson's The Locket
— Emily Nelson
Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
— Walter Smith
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
— Terry Southern
The fiction writer in me likes gaps in stories because I can jump into that gap and try to suggest something.
— Marlon James
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
I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.
— Charlotte Eriksson
A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!!
— Anamika Mishra
I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.
— Carrie Fisher
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
Continuity holds the best writer hostage of the worst.
— Marv Wolfman
Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.
— Jonathan Ames
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
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
