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Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer's most ancient task.
— David Burr Gerrard
This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered ...
— Tim Perkins
It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.
— William, Saroyan
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.
— Haruki Murakami
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
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
— David Mitchell
A writer is someone who has written something today
— J. A. Jance
There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
— L. Sprague De Camp
Who is as free as a writer? Nadie es tan libre como un escritor . . . No one is as free as a writer!
— Sofia Espinoza Alvarez
An Ambassadore is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country, a news writer is a man of no virtue who lies at home for himself.
— Henry Wotton
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.
— Clifford Geertz
A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.
— Aleksandr Voinov
A writer of fiction is really ... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.
— Ernest Hemingway,
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
— Philip Pullman
Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
— Alice McDermott
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
I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.
— Dean Wesley Smith
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
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
— Simon Beaufoy
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
— Anthony Trollope
An author is a writer who didn't give up.
— Richard Bach
A writer is the one who loves to write ... on and about anything ... And this clears that I am a writer!!
— Anamika Mishra
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't.
— Roger Scruton
There is only one person who needs to be convinced that you're a writer. That would be you.
— Tim Campbell
A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.
— Stephen King
Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level ... A writer is someone who writes.
— Pat Schneider
I don't know anyone who is a writer who isn't influenced by the relationships in their life.
— Amos Lee
The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
— James Baldwin
I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.
— Peter Gould
A writer is someone who writes!
— Pat Schneider
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It is no loss to mankind when one writer decides to call it a day. When a tree falls in the forest, who cares but the monkeys? — Richard Ford
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
— Richard Bach
The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
— William, Saroyan
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
— Dr. Seuss
A horror writer is one who is not only willing to look into the darkest of shadows ... but to reach into them too.
— Thomas Scopel
The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.
— Donald Barthelme
Any writer who presents an American home today where the television is not the head of the family is living in a fantasy world.
— Kurt Vonnegut
A writer is a person who writes.Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time — Andrew Puckett
A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.
— Jim Bishop
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.
— Janet Frame
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
— Edna Ferber
I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.
— Christopher Rice
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.
— William Maxwell
I think the greatest reward you get as a writer is finding that people who are reasonably receptive and intelligent have liked your book.
— Christopher Koch
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
— Ayelet Waldman
A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
— Charles Baudelaire
It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.
— Ray Bradbury
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to be a writer can afford to indulge in it.
— Katherine Mansfield
An artist who makes pictures that look good but express nothing is like a writer whose words sound good but have no meaning.
— Gerald Brommer
A poor writer is one who names rather than represents.
— Italo Calvino
I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.
— Said Sayrafiezadeh
A writer who can't follow submission guidelines is like a pilot without a plane ... ain't gonna get very far!
— Jo Linsdell
A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.
— Nicholaa Spencer
There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.
— Susan Sontag
A writer is someone who has no choice
— Andrew Updegrove
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
— Brian Lumley
Robin Buss is a writer and translator who contributes regularly to The Times Educational Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement and other papers.
— Alexandre Dumas
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
As a writer and director, I want to know what is behind the good manners and soft voice. Who is inside the silhouette?
— Federico Fellini
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.
— Howard Barker
An editor is someone who is paid to tell a writer what she thinks about how he wrote what he thinks about.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
— Walter Kirn
A writer who intermingles his own opinions with that of his characters is less consequent than a fascistic communist.
— Kevin Focke
Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.
— Peter Matthiessen
My joy as a writer is circling around and around and down and down to find out who the real person is.
— Jill McCorkle
Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.
— Lucian Barnes
Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
— Marguerite Duras
You have to search for the best writer - I'm not saying I'm the one, but it's a bad idea to just find the person who is a copycat of Stieg Larsson.
— David Lagercrantz
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.
— Isaac Asimov
A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.
— Sandra Chami Kassis
But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.
— Sheldon Vanauken
As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
— David Frum
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
— Julia Alvarez
For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
— James Bernard Frost
A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run
— Channing Pollock