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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. — Martin Amis

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

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

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

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

Words--Midnight coined and daily spent. . .writer of the dream.
--Jim Ross Author, Rays: Wherever They Touch — Jim Ross

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

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

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 head
I'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

Art is the writer not having control, but the subject having control of the writer. — Paula Vogel

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

Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game. — Lee Child

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

When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone. — Andrew Dice Clay

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

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

I turned down twelve films last year ... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. — Shia Labeouf

No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing. — Mylo Carbia

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

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. — Lisa Morton

The most fun thing about being a writer is that everything is interesting. — Rafael Yglesias

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

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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

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin

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

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. — Zadie Smith

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

The choices that bedevil the writer bedevil the translator ten times over. — Margaret Atwood

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. — William Faulkner

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

You are not the writer. You are the story being told from The Writer. — Richard Wisniewski

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list. — Tracy Letts

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

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 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

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

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

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. — Walter Smith

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

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit. — Philip Roth

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

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

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

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

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 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

You can't always control what happens to you but you can master how you react to it. — Nikki Rowe

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

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

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 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

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